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 Stunning Sundance-Winning Tale of Love and Survival Set in the Bolivian Highlands
Opens November 18 in Boca Raton at the
the Living Room Theaters
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“Rarely has the [climate] crisis been addressed as organically.”
– Marya E. Gates, RogerEbert.com
“A powerful tale of survival.” – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
“A strikingly beautiful work… captures the breathtaking highland vistas and the vast, brutal indifference of the landscape.” – Wendy Ide, Screen International
“Visually stunning… combines magical realism with gorgeously precise cinematography. The images conjured in Utama momentarily let us into the language of the unknown, of what we can not comprehend unless we are as in tune with the land as those whose existence is so deeply tied to it.”
– Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire 
Kino Lorber is proud to announce the U.S. theatrical release of UTAMA, the visually stunning debut feature by Bolivian filmmaker Alejandro Loayza Grisi. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, UTAMA was recently announced as Bolivia’s official Oscar® submission for Best International Feature. Lensed by award-winning cinematographer Barbara Álvarez (Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman), this moving drama of cultural survival amidst an urgent climate crisis signals the auspicious cinematic breakthrough of Loayza Grisi.
 UTAMA opens Friday, November 18 in Boca Raton, Florida, at the Living Room Theaters.
Utama follows an elderly Quechua couple that has been living a tranquil life for years. While Virginio takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, Sisa maintains their home and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, they must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Their dilemma is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news. The three of them must face, each in their own way, the effects of a changing environment, the importance of tradition, and the meaning of life itself.  
Bolivia / Uruguay / France | 2022 | 87 min | Color | 2.39:1 | In Quechua and Spanish with English subtitle |
