Utama won the World Dramatic Prize at Sundance this year and is tipped for an Oscar nomination, too. The film is set in a remote region in Bolivia’s arid highlands. Its gentle pace and non-professional actors give it a documentary feel but there is real narrative skill deployed. Director Alejandro Loyza Grisi started off his career as a stills photographer before moving into film and it shows in the stunningly beautiful images he’s captured with cinematographer Babara Álvarez.
Our impending climate catastrophe colors every action in writer-director Alejandro Loayza Grisi's feature debut. The "Sundance prize-winning Bolivian llama farmer movie about climate change" screens this weekend at the Brattle Theatre.