Bolivia’s Cinema Archive Turns Fifty With Chaplin’s Youngest Memory Keepers

When Chaplin Walked Into La Paz AgainLA PAZ, Bolivia. Before entering the screening rooms, each child received chocolate wrapped in a commemorative illustration of Bolivian cinema. “And while we can rescue that film memory, we are rescuing our identity, our memory, our history, and that is fundamental.” It has carried screenings beyond La Paz and introduced Bolivians to works that market logic would otherwise keep off local screens. Fifty years after the Cinemateca began with borrowed rooms and weekly screenings, Bolivia’s film memory has a home.