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Jorge Sanjinés
Director 89 years old

Jorge Sanjinés

La Paz, Bolivia

Jorge Sanjinés (born 31 July 1936 in La Paz, Bolivia) is a Bolivian film director and screenwriter. He founded the production group Grupo Ukamau. He won the ALBA Prize for Arts in 2009.

Directed Films

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5 titles
Lloksy Kaymata ¡Fuera de aquí!

Lloksy Kaymata ¡Fuera de aquí!

Jorge Sanjinés 1977 1h 39m

A rural community in the Ecuadorian Andes suddenly faces a land dispute with the legal representatives of a large company. The discovery of very rich ore deposits in the territory is the reason of the offensive greedy on those places, where the community lived since immemorial times.

El coraje del pueblo

El coraje del pueblo

Jorge Sanjinés 1971 1h 34m

A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.

Yawar mallku

Yawar mallku

Jorge Sanjinés 1969 1h 10m 8.0

Also known as Blood of the Condor.

Ukamau (Así es)

Ukamau (Así es)

Jorge Sanjinés 1966 1h 15m

While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.

Aysa

Aysa

Jorge Sanjinés 1965 25m

A Bolivian miner belonging to the pirquiñeros (independent workers that extracts ore in dangerous places abandoned by mining companies considered depleted) struggles to get some mineral by drilling the rock only with a chisel and a hammer.

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