The Condor Daughter

While those seeking social and cultural harmony would love to see everyone get along, the reality is that our world, sadly, is often beset by a clash of cultures, both at the macro level and in intensely personal interactions, scenarios that often prove difficult to resolve. And those are the very kinds of conflicts portrayed in this third big screen feature outing from writer-director Alvaro Olmos Torrico. Set primarily in a rural indigenous Bolivian Quechuan community, this mother-daughter drama follows the often-tense relationship between the local midwife, Ana (María Magdalena Sanizo), an...