This is a list of films produced inBolivia from the 1920s to present.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | ||||||
| Corazón Aymara | Pedro Sambarino | black and white,silentdrama | considered to be the first Bolivian fiction feature film[1][2] | |||
| The Prophecy of the Lake | José Maria Velasco Maidana | black and white,silentromance | Bolivia's second completed fiction feature film; banned by the authorities for its social critique and its portrayal of a white woman in love with an indigenous man; never released[1] | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | ||||||
| Wara Wara | José Maria Velasco Maidana | Juanita Taillansier,Martha de Velasco,Arturo Borda,Emmo Reyes | black and white,silent,historicalromance | the only known surviving work from Bolivia's silent-film era[3] | ||
| 1931 | ||||||
| Hacia la Gloria[1] | José Maria Velasco Maidana | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||||||
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| 1952 | ||||||
| 1953 | ||||||
| Vuelve Sebastiana | Augusto Roca &Jorge Ruiz | Luis Ramiro Beltrán,Sebastiana Kespi,Eduardo Lafaye,Esteban Lupi,Jean Vellard | Drama | |||
| 1954 | ||||||
| 1955 | ||||||
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| 1958 | ||||||
| 1959 | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1965 | ||||||
| 1966 | ||||||
| Ukamau | Jorge Sanjinés | Vicente Veneros Salinas,Elsa Antequera,Néstor Cárdenas,Benedicta Huanca | First feature film to use both Spanish and a native language (Aymara)[4] | |||
| 1967 | ||||||
| 1968 | ||||||
| Mina Alaska | Jorge Ruiz | Hugo Roncal,Chrysta Wagner, Charlie Smith | First Latin American film to be restored by theAMPAS Film Archive.[5] | |||
| 1969 | ||||||
| Yawar mallku | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||||
| En Busca Del Paraiso | ||||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| The Old People | Martín Boulocq | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Insurgentes | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
| Las bellas durmientes | Marcos Loayza | |||||
| 2013 | ||||||
| Once Upon a Time in Bolivia | Patrick Cordova | Luis Caballero, Miguel Angel Mamani, Ivan Nogales, Raul Beltran, Reynaldo Yuhra, Miguel Estellano | Drama | |||
| El olor de tu ausencia | Eddy Vázquez | |||||
| Yvy Maraey | Juan Carlos Valdivia | |||||
| Olvidados | Carlos Bolado | |||||
| 2015 | ||||||
| Sealed Cargo | Julia Vargas-Weise | |||||
| 2016 | ||||||
| Dark Skull | Kiro Russo | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||||||
| Chaco | ||||||
| Pseudo | Rodrigo Patiño,Luis Reneo | Drama, Thriller | ||||
| 2021 | ||||||
| 2022 | ||||||
| The Ones from Below | Alejandro Quiroga | Fernando Arze Echalar, César Bordón, Luis Bredow, Sonia Parada | Western, Drama | |||
| Utama | Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Luisa Quispe, José Calcina, Santos Choque | Drama | |||
| The Visitor | Martín Boulocq | Enrique Araoz, Svet Mena,César Troncoso,Mirella Pascual, Teresa Gutierrez, Romel Vargas | Drama | |||
| Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village | César Galindo | Víctor Acuario, Hermelinda Luján, Melisa Álvarez, Alder Yaurisaca, Cosme Flores, Bernando Rosado, Juan Ubaldo Huaman | Comedy-drama | |||
| 2024 | ||||||
| The Dog Thief | Vinko Tomičić | Franklin Aro,Alfredo Castro, María Luque, Julio César Altamirano, Ninon Davalos,Teresa Ruiz, Kleber Aro Huasco, Vladimir Gonza Mamani, Jhoselyn Rosmery Cosme, Wolframio Sinué, Felix Francisco Omonte Vargas, Iván Cori Mamani, Raúl Montecinos Heredia | Drama | Nominated - Best International Narrative Feature at the 23rdTribeca Film Festival[6][7][8] Nominated - Best Ibero-American Fiction Feature Film at the[9] Winner - New Actor - Special Mention for Franklin Aro at the39th Guadalajara International Film Festival[10] Nominated - CineVision Award at the 41stFilmfest München[11] Nominated - Best Picture at the28th Lima Film Festival[12] Winner - Special Jury Prize at the28th Lima Film Festival[13] Nominated - Best Film in the International Competition at the20th Santiago International Film Festival[14] Nominated - Best Performance for Franklin Aro in the International Competition at the20th Santiago International Film Festival[14] Nominated - Best International Feature Film at the 61stAntalya Golden Orange Film Festival[15] Winner - Best Director in the International Competition & Best Actor for Franklin Aro at the 61stAntalya Golden Orange Film Festival[15] Nominated - Latin-American Competition - Best Film at the 39thMar del Plata International Film Festival[16] Nominated - Best Fiction Feature Film at the 45thHavana Film Festival[17] Winner - Best Screenplay at the 45thHavana Film Festival[17] Nominated -Best Latin-American Film at the30th Forqué Awards[18][19] Winner - Best Latin-American Film at the28th Málaga Film Festival[20][21] Nominated - MARIMBAS Award at theMiami Film Festival[22][23] Winner -Best Ibero-American Debut Film at the12th Platino Awards[24] Nominated -Film and Values Education at the12th Platino Awards[25] Nominated -Best Ibero-American Film at the67th Ariel Awards[26] An international co-production with Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, France and Italy[27] Premiered on October 17[28] | ||
| Own Hand | Rodrigo Patiño | Alejandro Marañón, Freddy Chipana, Gonzalo Callejas, Christian Castillo, Raimundo Ramos, Victoria Suaznabar, Mauricio Toledo, Bernardo Rosado, Carlos Ureña | Thriller | |||
| The Southern House | Carina Oroza Daroca, Ramiro Fierro | Grisel Quiroga, Piti Campos, Arwen Delaine, Alejandra Lanza,Cristian Mercado, David Mondacca | Drama | |||