
October 20, 1985 · 40 years old
Alejandro Loayza Grisi is a filmmaker born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1985. His debut film 'Utama' premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2022, where he won the Grand Jury Prize. He also won three awards in Cinema in Construction in Toulouse 2021, including the Grand Prix.

In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.