Bolivian cinema has long worked against the grain, shaped by decades of political upheaval and a tradition of socially committed filmmaking that stretches back to Jorge Sanjinés and the Ukamau group in the 1960s. Films like Jonah and the Pink Whale show that wit and warmth have always had a place alongside that seriousness. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 2.5★
Utama, which takes its title from the Quechua word for "our home", arrived in 2022 carrying a substantial weight of festival expectation. It won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, placing it in a lineage of landscape-driven, politically conscious films from Latin America that use
Genre Drama
★★★ — Jonah and the Pink Whale (1995)
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