LOS DE ABAJO

THE ONES FROM BELOW

By Alejandro QUIROGA

RÍO AZUL FILMS - as PROD

Environmental - Completed 2022

An alcoholic farmer (Gregorio) looking for a lost cow discovers that the water of his old irrigation ditch was rerouted by a neighbor landowner, Gregorio will have to climb up the mountain to restore the water course.

Festivals
& Awards

Bolivia Lab 2014
BOLIVIA LAB WINNER
EDUARDO ABEROA 2018
PREMIO A GUIÓN
Malaga 2018
CO-PRODUCTION MARKET MAFIZZ
IBERMEDIA PRODUCTION 2019
PREMIO A PRODUCCIÓN
Ventana Sur 2022
Video Library
Mar Del Plata FF 2022
International Competence
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Environmental, First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 83 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alejandro QUIROGA
    • Writer(s)
    • Alejandro QUIROGA
    • Producer(s)
    • Álvaro OLMOS TORRICO (EMPATÍA CINEMA), Francisco PAPARELLA (RÍO AZUL FILMS), Mayra AUAD (YOUR MAMA), Alexandra LÓPEZ (CHIRIMOYA FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Gregorio is a rustic and idealistic peasant who lives frustrated in his village Rosillas.
      He superb and arrogantly proposes to recover for his family the waters of the old canal that were diverted by Colonel Iglesias who is a neighboring Argentine landowner, allied in plot with the mayor of the town for his vine crops. In his journey Gregorio has to confront the communal negligence, corruption and socio-economic power of the elite, leaving aside the love for his little son Olegario, the care of his aging parents and the love of Paula the school teacher who urges him to migrate to the city. How does the one who stays in the place that the rest decided to leave survive?