International Features Competition

The Great Movement

El Gran Movimiento

Swiss Premiere

Kiro Russo

Bolivia, Qatar, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom

2021, 85min

Fiction, Drama

VO. Spanish

ST. English, French

With

Julio César Ticona, Max Bautista Uchasara, Francisca Arce de Aro

A seven-day walk takes miners to La Paz, the highest capital in the world. Dazed, they come across a shaman, a white wolf, and the legend of the black panther. This mesmerizing, hybrid collage shot in 16 mm is a mystical ode to “Nuestra Amada Señora de la Paz” and the city’s invisible workers.

Something of an extension of his first movie, this film features miners from Huanuni, a small town in Bolivia. A seven-day walk takes them to La Paz, the highest capital in the world. At 3600 meters, the city is fragmented, made up of ruins and half-finished buildings, repeatedly hit by earthquakes. Dazed, the characters meet a shaman, a white wolf, and the legend of the black panther. This mesmerizing, hybrid collage shot in 16 mm is a mystical ode to “Nuestra Amada Señora de la Paz” and the city’s invisible workers.

Direction

Kiro Russo

Screenplay

Kiro Russo

Image

Pablo Paniagua

Editing

Felipe Gálvez Haberle, Kiro Russo, Pablo Paniagua

Sound

Mauricio Quiroga, Mercedes Tennina, Juan Pedro Razzari, Emmanuel Croset

Music

Miguel Llanque, Midnight Driver, Anton Vlasov