Utama (Our Home)

[Plays 5/18 at 7:10 p.m. as well as virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] Great cinematography highlights Alejandro Loayza Grisi's poignant, award-winning, heartbreaking, somber, realistic, 87-minute film in which an elderly Quechua couple (José Calcina and Luisa Quispe) living in the rain-parched Altiplano highlands in Bolivia struggle to care for their llamas that are suffering from dehydration and crops as water becomes more scarce after long-term drought while their concerned grandson (Santos Choque) tries to convince his stubborn, curmudgeonly, ailing grandfather to move to the city where life would be easier and he can be treated for his dire lung problems.
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