Watch The Beguiling UK Trailer For The Great Movement

Sovereign Film Distribution have released the official UK Trailer for prize winning The Great Movement.

Kiro Russo‘s film is a fascinating and unique examination of the plight of the working class in the teeming Bolivian capital La Paz. The film fashioned a fever dream of a film that also explores the social fabric of Russo’s home city. The Great Movement was also shortlisted as Bolivia’s Oscar submission next to the many film festival awards it’s already scooped up.

We follow a young man and his companions arrive in La Paz, Bolivia, who is looking to work at the city’s mine. His health starts to deteriorate, and when a woman brings him to a mysterious witch doctor to cure him.

What is fascinating about this is the cast is made up of non-professional actors including Max Bautista Uchasara, Julio César Ticona, Israel Hurtado, and Gustavo Milán Ticona.

Bolivia, present-day. A young miner, Elder, makes a week-long trek to La Paz to demand the reinstatement of his and fellow workers’ jobs, better still to make it in the big city. But after finding work in a local market Elder suddenly falls ill, suffering frequent choking and shortness of breath, his mysterious ailment as sprawling and overwhelming as the city itself. A doctor says there is no cure, he is beyond help. As Elder deteriorates, he enlists the aid of the mysterious Mamá Pancha, who sends him to Max, a homeless witch doctor, hermit, and clown. Will Elder slip away, or can their otherworldly magic pull him from the brink and back to life?