Searching for the devil inside

La tentation de Potosi / Credit : Philippe Crnogorac, Zorba Productions

Yesterday I went to the premiere of “La tentation de Potosi” (The temptation of Potosi, only in one cinema in Paris for the moment). Interesting idea from the French documentary maker Philippe Crnogorac who had already made a film about Bolivia ten years ago. He heard about popular stories where Bolivian miners pact with the devil to get rich. Especially one called Manuel Morales, who disappeared after breaking the pact.

“La Yuma”, Central America’s crude reality

La Yuma

Isolated, suffering from clichés, far away from North America, but also from the South… Central America today is a victim of the syndrome of indifference. And the few incursions of this region of the world on the media theater only occur for tragic events or natural disasters. So when the cinema is interested in it and offers an insight into the daily life of a poor neighborhood of Managua