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MAFF) provides a forum for Latin American film projects to seek international production partnerships. Costa Rican productions will be highlighted by subsection Costa Rica Guest Country. The socially impactful film “Silence of the Earth” will feature in the MAFF Social subsection.

Stephanie Beatriz’s 6-month-old daughter Rosaline might be Encanto’s fans club founder. According to the 41-year-old actress, her baby girl is obsessed with Disney’s hit movie.“She loves it,” Beatriz, who voices Mirabel Madrigal, told People.

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mum faced criticism when she showed up at her son's school wearing a revealing outfit that almost exposed her butt.Vanesa Medina, who works as a lawyer and a fitness model, was filmed taking her child to school in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra earlier this week.In the video taken by another parent, Vanesa sported a paper-thin pink playsuit for the school run.She got out of her car to send her son off to school, grabbing his bag from the back of the car.She ensured all attention was on her in the halter-necked outfit, which flaunted her tanned skin and toned butt.When she turns around, the woman behind the camera makes a comment and says it's "inappropriate" to wear in front of young children.The parent also claimed that it was not the first time to see Vanesa wore racy clothing on the school run. Images of the fitness model, who previously won the Miss Fitness contest in Bolivia, went viral on social media – and many parents said they considered her look inappropriate for a school setting.Following the fashion furore, the lawyer took to social media to hit back at critics.She said: "I wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who sent messages of support, signs of affection and appreciation with such beautiful words, and defending me on social media over that video that went viral with bad intentions against me that the mother took, wanting to denigrate me, exposing herself with such contempt towards me, and exposing my four-year-old son without knowing that is a crime."Her plans did not go as well as she wanted.

A drama about an undocumented nanny in New York City, a documentary about three exiled dissidents from Tiananmen Square and another doc about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival. Winners were announced Friday evening in a virtual ceremony.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhen one is asked to picture those who are are most impacted by global warming, the imagination flashes to Inuits on a melting ice floe or Maldives natives threatened by rising tides, not Bolivian shepherds who graze their livestock on the Altiplano, nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. But the residents of these remote highlands are also endangered, as director Alejandro Loayza Grisi reveals in his sublime, quietly elegiac feature debut, “Utama,” focusing on an elderly couple who refuse to relocate to the nearby city of La Paz, even as mountain glaciers melt, rains become less reliable and their herd of llamas slowly succumb to dehydration.Played by actual couple José Calcina and Luisa Quispe (authentic, nonprofessional actors whom Loayza Grisi had to convince to participate), long-married Virginio and Sisa share a small mud house without electricity or running water.

Utama (Our Home) is precisely the sort of discovery that justifies film festivals and makes them useful: a small, hitherto unheard-of work from an out-of-the-way country that grabs you from the opening minutes and afterwards makes you want to tell your friends they’ve got a real treat to look forward to. A rare Bolivian entry in a major festival, this Sundance World Dramatic Competition title and feature debut by Alejandro Loayza Grisi is gorgeously made and brings to life a backwater existence in a distant land with skill and assurance.

Anna Marie de la Fuente The producers of Sundance world dramatic competition entry “Utama,” Bolivia’s Alma Films and Uruguay’s LaMayorCine, have re-teamed for “Los Abrazos” (“The Embrace”), the sixth fiction feature of Marcos Loayza.The father of “Utama” director Alejandro Loayza Grisi and a lauded filmmaker in Bolivia, Loayza’s credits include his career-launching 1995 drama “A Question of Faith” (“Cuestion de Fe),” adventure pic “Averno” and the docu series “Planet Bolivia” where his son served as DP.“’Los Abrazos’ is in quite an advanced phase and we hope to shoot it by the end of this year or early next,” said Federico Moreira of LaMayorCine who is hoping to enlist an Argentine co-producer for the drama which they expect to film on location in Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. Alejandro Loayza Grisi will likely serve as DP.

Virgino and Sisa live what most people would consider a very simple life. They raise and care for Lamas in the Bolivian highlands keeping the traditions of their Quechua people alive.

Manchester United winger Facundo Pellistri has received his first senior international call-up from Uruguay.

Anna Marie de la Fuente By telling the story of an elderly indigenous couple as they eke out a living in the arid Bolivian highlands, Alejandro Loayza Grisi brings home the all-too-real perils of climate change in his country and around the world. But “Utama” (“Our Home”) is also an enduring love story, played by real-life couple Jose Calcina and Luisa Quispe, who’ve been married for 48 years.“Utama,” which world premieres Jan.

crimes that included the murder of over 14,000 people and deportation of 7,500 others.Klaus Barbie joined the SS in 1935 at the age of 22 and began working in its security service, which acted as the intelligence-gathering arm of the Nazi Party.After the German conquest of France, he was assigned to Lyon as the head of the Gestapo in 1942.During his time in Lyon, he personally tortured adult and child prisoners and became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for his sick volume of crimes.

Victor Lindelof named Manchester United teammate Cristiano Ronaldo as his number one pick for FIFA's TheBest player as the 36-year-old missed out on the top three for the first time since the award's inception.

prison for fraud after bankrupting London-based Barings Bank back in 1995 by hiding $1.3 billion in debt he accumulated as a derivatives trader in Singapore.During an interview with CNN, the author of "Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World," recalled his time spent in a maximum-security prison in Germany.Thrown in with Yugoslav gunrunners, Bolivian drug lords and sex offenders, he said: "That was the one time I contemplated suicide. I wouldn't have been able to do it myself though."But there were these two Italian boys.

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Manuel Betancourt There’s a symphonic rhythm to the aptly-titled Bolivian film “The Great Movement” (“El Gran Movimiento”). Kiro Russo’s portrait of La Paz is driven more by sensory cues than by any steady sense of narrative.

Manchester United have a number of injury doubts ahead of their Premier League fixture at Watford on Saturday.

Edinson Cavani's absence from the team hotel last night ahead of Manchester United's clash with Manchester City has raised questions over his involvement in the clash.

Victor Lindelof and Edinson Cavani were not spotted as the Manchester United squad arrived at The Lowry Hotel on Friday night ahead of Saturday's derby.

Lionel Messi doesn't leave an audience awestruck.Considered by many to be the greatest player to ever kick a football, the little Argentine is an absolute master of taking people's breath away.But what about the time Messi's breath was taken away - causing him to throw up on the pitch?Let's rewind eight years, shall we?Estadio Hernando Siles is the Bolivian national side's home stadium, situated in the nation's capital, La Paz.The stadium has become a very serious weapon in Bolivia's arsenal, as well as a source of international controversy.The reason? It sits among the mountains in the north-eastern Andes, some 3,637 metres above sea level, making it one of the highest sports stadiums in the world.At that sort of altitude, athletes need a

Anna Marie de la Fuente Chile’s Zapik Films, co-producer of “My Tender Matador” starring Alfredo Castro, has boarded the Bolivian political thriller “Family” (“Familia”) by Marcelo Landaeta, which participates in Sanfic Industria’s Santiago Fiction Lab.Landaeta describes his debut feature as a thriller set in the late ‘70s when Bolivia is in the grip of a military dictatorship.“It is precisely in this universe, plagued by terror and violence, when the lives of four people intersect on the eve of a coup,” Landaeta explained, who likens his script’s structure to that of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s seminal “Amores Perros” where four seemingly disparate stories are linked to one incident.