My Bolivia, Remembering What I Never Knew
Pragda • 56m
Directed by Rick Tejada-Flores • Documentary • 2017 • 58 minutes
My Bolivia is a historic road trip to make sense of a family’s and a country’s past. A Latino filmmaker travels to Bolivia to find the things his parents told him, and what they never said — the family’s slave-owning past, his grandfather the President’s role in Latin America’s bloodiest war, the relative who was one of the leaders of the Revolution, and connections with a notorious Nazi war criminal… all a far cry from growing up in California and a life as an activist.
The story of the affluent, land-owning Tejada family intersects with the history of Bolivia in the 20th century in revealing and deeply uncomfortable ways. This unearthing of a shocking legacy and how director Tejada-Flores decides to portray it, give this documentary a transcendently bittersweet ending.
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