Bolivian filmmaker Álvaro Olmos Torrico is moving ahead with a new feature, Chicha Fantasy, coming on the heels of the growing international profile of his latest film, The Condor Daughter. Variety first reported the project, describing it as Torrico’s next film after the award-winning run of The Condor Daughter.
That timing matters. Torrico isn’t launching this from scratch or out of nowhere. The Condor Daughter has been picking up serious festival attention, including the Arthouse Cinema Award at Cinélatino Toulouse in 2025. Festival and market listings identify the film as a Bolivia-Peru-Uruguay co-production, a detail that helps explain why his next move is drawing interest beyond Bolivia as well.
What makes Chicha Fantasy especially intriguing is the material already circulating through industry platforms. A Cinélatino project page for Fantasía chicha lists Torrico as director and frames the film as a fiction feature from Peru. The synopsis points to a darker, more urgent story than the title might initially suggest: it follows Mirelli, a 15-year-old Quechua shepherd whose search for answers after her sister’s death leads her toward a network exploiting Indigenous girls through social media.
There’s also a thematic thread here that doesn’t feel accidental. The Condor Daughter centers on a young Quechua midwife’s apprentice pulled between ancestral tradition and the lure of a different life in the city. Festival descriptions stress the film’s focus on Indigenous life in the Andes, generational tension and the friction between old beliefs and modern pressures. Seen in that light, Chicha Fantasy looks less like a detour and more like a continuation of Torrico’s interest in young Indigenous characters navigating systems that are bigger, harsher and often predatory. That’s an inference, but it lines up closely with how both projects are described in festival materials.
For Torrico, this is the kind of moment directors work toward for years: one film breaks through, and the next one arrives with a little more heat around it, a little more attention, a little less anonymity. Whether Chicha Fantasy follows the same festival path is still to be seen. But on paper already, it has the ingredients of a project likely to resonate on the circuit — a strong social core, a clear regional identity, and a filmmaker whose name now carries more weight than it did even a year ago.
