Showtimes and Locations

Thursday, September 17. 5:00 p.m. Floyd Theater

Thursday, October 8, 5:00 p.m. Floyd Theater
Introduction: Prof.

Title: Southern Zone/Zona Sur
Director(s): Juan Carlos Valdivia
Country: Bolivia
Year: 2011
language: Spanish and Aymara with English subtitles
Genre: Drama
Type: Full length feature film
Length: 108 minutes.
Format: Digital
Rating*: NR 

 

Presented as part of The Spanish Film Club series with the support Pragda, and the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC, Spain-USA Foundation. Special thanks to the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

*Rating System:  Latin American films use a different rating systme. However, we have used the following rating system to evaluafte these films.
V includes violence | L includes strong language | N includes nudity | S includes sex

Storyline

La Paz’s Zona Sur neighborhood is Bolivia’s most exclusive enclave and has housed the country’s affluent elite for generations. In an adobe-tile-roofed castle, a statuesque matriarch reigns over her spoiled offspring and indigenous servants. But social change, however unwelcome, is on its way. As the mother squabbles with her self-indulgent, oversexed teenage son and clashes with her petulant daughter, her 6-year-old boy wanders the rooftops unsupervised. The scent of impending decline permeates the air, and the threat of shifting aristocratic privilege heralds a new era in a seemingly interminable class war. Bolivia’s official entry for the Academy® Awards, this searing portrait of a patrician family in flux exposes the bubble of decadence in which they exist. With outstanding cinematography, Valdivia elevates camerawork from a craft to the level of art.
From Pragda, Spanish Film Club.

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