High in the misty Andes, Clara is being raised by her adoptive mother, a Quechua midwife who teaches her to sing the sacred songs passed down through generations — melodies said to ease pain and bring life safely into the world. But Clara’s voice yearns for more than tradition. Her heart is pulled toward the city, where she dreams of becoming a folk music star.
In The Condor Daughter, Bolivian filmmaker Álvaro Olmos Torrico crafts a tender portrait of adolescence, ambition, and cultural inheritance. With breathtaking cinematography by Nicolás Wong Díaz, the film glides between open mountain pastures and bustling urban chaos, mirroring Clara’s inner tensions. This sophomore fiction feature honours Indigenous knowledge while affirming the right to choose one’s future. Neither hung up on the past nor rejecting it, the film finds strength in the inbetween, asking what it means to carry tradition forward and chart a path that’s entirely one’s own.
Community Partner
María Magdalena Sanizo, Marisol Vallejos Montaño, Nelly Huayta, Alisson Jimenez, Gregoria Maldonado
Bolivia/Peru/Uruguay
2025
In Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles
At Granville Island Stage & VIFF Centre
At Fifth Avenue
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Iris Sigalit Ocampo Gil, Aniceto Arroyo
Producer
Álvaro Olmos Torrico, Cecilia Sueiro Mosquera, Diego Sarmiento Pagan, Federico Moreira
Screenwriter
Álvaro Olmos Torrico
Cinematography
Nicolas Wong Diaz
Editor
Álvaro Olmos Torrico, Irene Cajías
Production Design
Ivan Siacara
Original Music
Sergio Prudencio
Álvaro Olmos Torrico
Álvaro Olmos Torrico was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His debut feature, Wiñay (2019), was among the first Bolivian films to be released globally, via Amazon Prime. Torrico has produced both documentaries and fiction features, including The Ones from Below (2022) by Alejandro Quiroga and The Visitor (2022) by Martín Boulocq. He is the founder of BoliviaCine.com, the first SVOD platform dedicated to Bolivian cinema, and has taught at the Bolivian Private University and the Andean School of Cinematography. Condor Daughter (2025) is his second feature film.
Filmography: San Antonio (2011); Wiñay (2018)
Photo by Empatia Cinema
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