Official Selection - Out of Competition · 44th Edition
Utama
UTAMA
Director
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Country
Bolivia, Uruguay, France
Runtime
1 h 27 min
Language
Spanish
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly couple has been living the same daily routine for years. When an uncommonly long drought threatens this routine, they face the dilemma of resisting or being defeated by the passage of time.
Cast
José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque
Screenplay
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Producers
Santiago Loayza Grisi, Federico Moreira
About the Director
A Bolivian director. He began his artistic career in still photography and entered the world of cinema through cinematography. Attracted by the stories that can be told through images, he ventured into writing and directing during the preparation of his first feature film UTAMA. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.
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