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In December of 2002, McDonald's had to shut down their restaurants in Bolivia. The company cited financial problems, but the real reasons were to be found elsewhere. Bolivia may be a small, poor nation on the global market, but a country's fierce local food culture can be sometimes a more powerful factor than economic clout. In his first feature-length documentary, Fernando Martinez shows what happened, a story driven by the characters behind the events and their life stories, such as renowned cooks and a review of popular sayings about the Bolivian food. The symbolism is obvious when a multinational giant is 'brought to its knees' by a country's traditions and heritage.
Cuestión de fe es un largometraje producido en Bolivia en 1995, dirigida por Marcos Loayza. En esta película participa Jorge Ortiz y Elías Serrano. La película trata de una imagen sagrada que debe ser trasladada por encargo desde una región altiplánica hacia el oriente del país. Pero durante el viaje, la virgen es robada en uno de los pueblos de las regiones andinas y llevado a la región de los Yungas, los protagonistas tratan de recuperar la imagen sagrada, pero al final, llegan a un acuerdo con los pobladores en los Yungas y la imagen se queda en un pueblo de dicha región.
The story of the friendship between a truck driver and a shoeshine boy who occasionally becomes his assistant when they travel together from the agro-industrial area of Santa Cruz to the high Andean basin of La Paz in a truck named "Mi Socio".
Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
Vito (at present 70 years old) continues in his random adventures: blackmailed by the Patron, a fearsome drug trafficker who Vito managed to lock up in a maximum security prison, now lives hidden in a small Amazonian town. Gone are the glorious days of truck driver with his truck "My Partner". When Vito finally is placed by the son of the Patron, and is in serious trouble, he has no choice but to seek the help of his former assistant Brillo through his daughter Camila. Will Vito return to travel the roads of Bolivia with his old truck "MY PARTNER"? —Paolo Agazzi