Southern District

Synopsis

Winner of Best Director and Best Screenplay awards in the World Cinema Competition at Sundance and Official Selection at the 2010 London Film Festival, Juan Carlos Valdivia’s retelling of the last crumbling days of Bolivian apartheid, is vividly captured through the portrait of an upper class family, as their lives slowly begin to turn upside down in its wake.

Beautifully shot, Valdivia’s revolving camera serves as a watchful eye over a community on the brink of social upheaval and exposes not only the decadent bubble that surrounds the bourgeois society, but the forgotten story of the native Aymara population.

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Reviews

"a ravishing look at a bourgeois Bolivian family undergoing quiet emotional turmoil"

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

"entrancing... Stylistically innovative"

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"A blisteringly perceptive interrogation of the class schisms in Bolivian society, shot with bold panache by Juan Carlos Valdivia"

THE LONDON FILM FESTIVAL