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La Hija Cóndor at Filmcasino

La Hija Cóndor at Filmcasino
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When
28 August 2026
Where
Margaretenstraße 78, 1050 Wien
Price
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  • Drama
  • Spanish & Quechua
  • Filmcasino
  • August 28

Clara is a midwife in the remote Andean village of Totorani. She knows the old songs, the old knowledge, the old ways. She also knows she wants something else — a life in the city, music, escape. Her adoptive mother, Ana, needs her. The village needs her. The film sits quietly in that tension, never rushing to resolve it.

Álvaro Olmos Torrico shoots the Andes like a character in the story — vast, indifferent, beautiful. The cinematography catches the texture of skin, the dimness of indigenous households, the noise and neon of Cochabamba city. The performances by Marisol Vallejos Montaño and María Magdalena Sanizo are deeply affecting without ever overstating emotion. The film trusts you to feel what's at stake.

This is not a film about tradition versus modernity in the abstract. It's about a specific young woman, in a specific place, making a specific choice. Filmcasino's Cine Latino series is one of the few venues in Vienna that programmes this kind of work — films that have travelled the festival circuit and earned their place, but still feel urgent and new.

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