También la Lluvia – Also the Rain

Cochabamba, Bolivia. Year 2000. Sebastián (Gael García Bernal) and Costa (Luis Tosar) have set out to make a film about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America. While Sebastián, the director, tries to demystify the character by presenting him as an ambitious and unscrupulous man; Costa, the producer, only cares about adjusting the film to the modest budget available to them; That is precisely why he chooses Bolivia, for being one of the cheapest countries and with the largest indigenous population in Latin America. The film is shot in Cochabamba, where the privatization and sale of water to a multinational sows such unrest among the population that it will trigger the infamous Bolivian Water War (April 2000). The struggle between indigenous communities against the predatory civilization that is a transcript of the struggles against colonization and conquest 500 years earlier. Director: Icíar Bollaín Genre: Fiction Country: Spain Year: 2010 Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Duration: 104 min