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American Visa

Name: American Visa
Released: 2005

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

This film is stop 9 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Bolivia. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

Watching this film stamps Bolivia in the 196 country film challenge.