Director:           Icíar Bollaín
Cast:                 Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde
Duration:         103 min
Genre:               Drama, historical

Film director Sebastián and producer Costa have decided to make a film about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America. Bolivia has been chosen as the location, as it is the cheapest country in South America and has the largest indigenous population in South America. However, it seems that history is about to repeat itself, as in Cochacamba, the location chosen for the film, a Bolivian water war (April 2000) breaks out over the sale of water to a multinational corporation, which has pushed up the price of water to unaffordable levels for the locals. “Forbidden Rain is a film about filmmaking, but it is also an ambitious and successful combination of the intersections of religion, justice, politics and art. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the Spanish Film Academy and was an audience favourite at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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