THE TUNE OF THE WIND

LA TONADA DEL VIENTO

By Yvette PAZ SOLDÁN

PUCARA FILMS - as PROD

First film - Completed 2019

At school, in the hundredth anniversary of Bolivia’s loss in war with Chile, Panchito meets Pedro, a Chilean boy who lost his parents in Antofagasta. They will find themselves living on the streets of La Paz, and begin a journey together, confronting a hostile world.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2018
Video Library
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • BOLIVIA, BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yvette PAZ SOLDÁN
    • Producer(s)
    • Paola GOSALVEZ (Pucara Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Panchito, a farmer boy, gets lost in his first trip to the city, chasing a ball in the huge market of El Alto, Bolivia, the biggest Latin-American fair.
      Justino, his father tries desperately to find his son in different places from the city without success. The incompetence and disorder of the police, an identity document confusion, and despite Panchitos and his fathers efforts, the boy ends up in an orphanage.
      At school, while the anniversary of over hundred years of Bolivia’s loss of the sea in a war with Chile, Panchito meets Pedro, a Chilean boy who lost his parents in Antofagasta, Chile.
      Panchito wants nothing more to return to his home in his rural village to be alongside his father. Pedro dreams of returning to the sea, which he sees as the door to heaven, where he believes his parents have been since their passing.
      These two children’s dreams’ create a bond that takes them in a trip from the boisterous city of La Paz, trough the arid High Plateau, a vast solitary landscape with hundreds of inhabit kilometres, a desert surrounded by the barren mountains painted by the yellow straw with its sandy crude wind tune to the vigorous wind of the waves in the ocean, covered by the blue skies.
      Despite the fact that their nations are historical enemies, their connection can be seen and felt and heard as they journey towards their destinations.
      But destiny is not always what we plan and along their journey, an adventure begins.