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American Visa

2005

After his application for a U.S. visa is refused, a mild-mannered Bolivian professor desperate to reach his son in the States slides into a world of crime — and into an affair with a woman from the lowlands. A bittersweet drama about longing and reinvention.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Bolivia

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