A taxi driver gets caught up in a deadly operation when he steals the identity of a passenger

Pseudo.2020.720p.HMAX.WEB-DL.DD5.1.x264-TEPES.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/8539BE217F004B5/Pseudo.2020.1080p.HMAX.WEB-DL.DD5.1.x264-TEPES.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:Portuguese(hardcoded)

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Maleficarum (2011) directed by Jac Avila is a good screen play by an independent Bolivian film company. It is good historical fiction loosely based on María Francisca Ana de Castro, a Spanish immigrant to Alta Peru, who was renowned for her beauty and wealth. She was arrested and accused of “judaizing”. After many days of torture she confessed and was burned at the stake in 1726. This event was a major spectacle in Lima, but it raised questions about possible irregular procedures and about the corruption within the Inquisition, this lead to the end of The Holy Office (The Inquisition) in Peru. The director and actors do an admirable recreating the actual realistic suffering in great detail of what the victims of the Spanish Inquisition had to endure. The best was the director’s use of the actors’ facial and body language, it was very cerebral and visual at the same time. This viewer marveled at the simplicity of that movie and how it got its complex message across, the script and the story plot was very well thought out. The dialogue of the accusers and witnesses did well in showing the bias and superstitions of that time.A wealthy orphan (an adult, but whose parents have died and is as yet, unmarried – so, in that period, unprotected) befriends another woman who has lost her husband and is now a homeless widow. Their relationship has lesbian elements – which of course are “beyond the pale” in the era; additionally, the friend is “horror of horrors” – a Lutheran – in other words – a heretic! And the orphan is wealthy… The Inquisition steps in soon enough and when the two women prove ‘uncooperative’- this film pulls no punches. The film shows both how the two women are slowly but surely broken in graphic detail and, showing interviews the inquisitors have with various witnesses, also how the common beliefs of the time justified it. The torture is shown historically accurately being done to the women’s totally nude bodies.

Maleficarum.2011.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/4EA1E6724ABD9BF/Maleficarum.2011.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

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ZONA SUR has met with success in both Latin America and at festivals like Sundance, where it won World Cinema Directing and Screenwriting awards in 2010. Interestingly it was also Bolivia’s official entry for the 2010 Oscars. How has it fared in his own country? He says, “In La Paz the film has caused a sensation. People don’t stop talking about it. It has been like a hot potato thrown into the hands of society. The ending [or lack of a definite ending] bothers some people. But then people have to talk about it.” And such discussions should gladden the hearts of any filmmakers.
-Chale Nafus

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Southern District is a film in the grand tradition of Satyajit Ray’s The Music Room and Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard. Despite attempts at keeping up appearances, an era of concentrated privilege is passing. Judging from the ending, an only slightly assimilated native population of Bolivia seems poised to come into its own. This film is a fascinating, beautifully executed look at a country and culture I’d like to know better
-By Marilyn Ferdinand

Zona.sur.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/3DCA3842EC228D1/Zona.sur.mkv
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Language(s):Spanish, Aymara
Subtitles:English

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In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and his wife (Sisa) face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.

Extra: making of, with hardcoded French subtitles

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https://nitro.download/view/7601529FDC2F8E3/Utama.(Alejandro.Loayza.Grisi.2022).BDRip.576p.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/CFF6D5C230E0A9E/Making_of.mkv
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Language(s):Quechua,Spanish
Subtitles:French

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variety.com

There’s a symphonic rhythm to the aptly-titled Bolivian film “The Great Movement” (“El Gran Movimiento”). Kiro Russo’s portrait of La Paz is driven more by sensory cues than by any steady sense of narrative. Ostensibly following a trio of miners who arrive at the sprawling, Andean capital city with the hopes of getting jobs, “The Great Movement” emerges instead as a dissection of this highest of Latin American urban jungles.

What first greets viewers of Russo’s film is the city as sounds. Images of buildings and traffic jams may slowly take up the screen but what immediately envelopes audiences is La Paz’s soundscape. Honking horns. Indistinct crowd chatter. School bells ringing. Construction noise. These are all mixed together as if each sound were an instrument in Russo’s urban orchestra that he’s calling up to play an overture for the film that’s to follow.

Immediately, Russo posits the thesis of his film: To understand La Paz is to lose oneself in its chaos, in those traffic jams and crowded markets, in its mass protests and its bustling streets. And that’s where Russo immediately takes us, eventually zooming into three men who stare with weariness around them at the city where they’ve just arrived. Miners by trade, they’ve come to make it in La Paz, a goal which proves more difficult once one of them (Julio César Ticona’s Elder) starts showing symptoms for a mysterious pulmonary illness. With his wheezing and his inexplicable cough, Elder’s ailments feel eerily timely, even as the sickness Russo is sketching is more of a metaphor for a rotting system that may well be, as Max (Max Bautista Uchasara), a local tramp, puts it, more of a spiritual ailment than anything modern science can quell.

There are instances where “The Great Movement” lags — or, rather, when its idiosyncratic narrative and tonal shifts make it hard to follow it along down its labyrinthine structure. One minute you’re watching a man sharpening his knife from afar, the camera an indifferent interloper, next you’re surveying the foggy mountains, finding Max in some sort of trance in the forest before alighting back in the city where a crane digs through debris. Documentary-style moments at the market where a group of women bring some needed warmth and humor to the proceedings or in the makeshift dank sleeping quarters Elder and his friends crash at, run up against more stylistically daring moments, which culminate in a feverish editing tour de force that serves as a fitting musical climax to Russo’s cacophonous urban symphony.

As the movie unfolds Russo peels back the many layers he’s working with. And with every new sequence, he constantly shifts the premise and genre of his own film: Is this a vérité-styled character portrait? Or a supernatural allegory about modernity? Might it be both, an intervention into a cinema of place that’s as much about evoking a vibe than offering a real and realistic snapshot of a city in motion?

Yet there’s an undeniable assurance in the filmmaking here and a clear point of view. There’s verve, for example, in staging what amounts to an ’80s music video — replete with fog-machine effects and “Thriller”-era group choreography — as an intermission of sorts. The sequence is just as entrancing as it sounds, begging audiences to understand the film’s own seemingly self-serious posturing as just that. It must be said that watching Russo’s non-professional ensemble dancing in the middle of the night to an electro-infused beat that comes out of nowhere and disappears just as quickly is befuddling. But also incredibly charming. It’s the kind of scene that refuses to let these characters be defined solely by their jobs or their ailments or their place in La Paz’s social order.

Such moments suggests Russo knew there was no way to capture what makes this city such a vibrant setting without indulging in its many visual and aural contradictions. His slow pans, scored by the city’s buzzing sounds and an increasingly operatic score, gradually open up the city not with the precision of a surgical scalpel but with the haphazard care of a local butcher. “The Great Movement” seeks to reveal something indelible about La Paz through the eyes of these outsiders who nevertheless find themselves in its innermost recesses, an underbelly that’s out in the open if only you’d care to look.

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https://nitro.download/view/96180D2DBC104F2/El_Gran_Movimiento_(Kiro_Russo,_2021).mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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Elder Mamani’s immaturity and recklessness make him a liability as a Huanuni tin mine, where he’s filled his recently deceased father’s job. Elder spirals further out of control until his fellow workers petition to have him removed.

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A nightmarish look at mining in Bolivia. It definitely stands on its own… But I sensed Eduardo Galeano meets Andrei Tarkovsky meets Béla Tarr meets early Soviet montage meets Weerasethakul’s nature. The best film I’ve watched in a long while. Deserves to be better known.

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https://nitro.download/view/CF70C75027DAEC3/Viejo_Calavera_(2016).mkv

Language:Spanish
Subtitles:Spanish,English,French,German,Italian,Portuguese

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This interesting and colorful film has been unseeded for more than five years and deserves an upgrade IMnHO. A Bolivia-Cuba-Argentina coproduction with Ibermedia help and several film institutions, it was the Official submission of Bolivia for the ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ category of the 78th Academy Awards in 2006… not that it matters that much.

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https://nitro.download/view/578D689E91CA0BF/Di_buen_día_a_papá.mkv

Language:Spanish
Subtitles:English

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