Young bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle, Jacinto, lost in the Averno. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, myth and reality get endlessly intertwined and the death-loaded night in La Paz unveils the darkest and most surreal face of the imaginary of the Andes.
Cinematography
La Paz as a glittering underworld—every frame breathes sulphur and neon.
Practical Effects
Grotesque masks and rituals that feel genuinely excavated, not designed.
Direction
Loayza turns a shoeshine kit into an Orpheus myth.
Director
Marcos Loayza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film draws directly from Aymara and Quechua conceptions of Ukhu Pacha, the subterranean world of the dead, rarely depicted in Bolivian cinema.
Director Marcos Loayza is son of legendary Bolivian filmmaker Antonio Eguino; Averno was his deliberately uncommercial rebellion against national cinema's historical epic conventions.
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