Cinema Mentiré presents the UK premiere of Puerto Escondido.

In 1879, Bolivia lost its access to the sea in a war. When the director Gabriela Paz was a child, she did not understand how Bolivia had lost the sea – she thought the Chileans had taken it in buckets, but at the end of the day, they felt lazy and left a piece, which is nowadays Lake Titicaca. Puerto Escondido is a travel itinerary towards interior landscapes, myths, characters and contradictions in a country that every day remembers this loss. It is also a kind of letter to a sibling country, offering a current perspective on the aftermath of the Pacific War and how it was experienced in private and public spaces, mixing family archives and official sources. In this film, many extraordinary, peculiar stories will not go unnoticed and reflect Bolivia’s insatiable thirst for the sea.

The screening will be introduced by film researcher Laís Lorenço (University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil & University College London - UCL, UK).

This film is part of Cinema Mentiré's season of recent Bolivian films in partnership with The Garden Cinema - Echoes and Horizons: Contemporary Bolivian Cinema.