Directed by: Icíar Bollaín
Released: 2010
Run time: 104 minutes
Certificate: 15
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That irresistible thing, a film about making a film, combined with history and a political message
As a director and his film crew arrive to shoot a controversial drama about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, the local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
This powerful and moving story about class struggles draws parallels between the exploitation of Native Americans by Christopher Columbus and the colonizers, and the current Water War caused by an American organization taking over Cochabamba’s water system and hugely inflating water prices for locals.