
Wrestling Women
Bolivia's female wrestlers, known as cholitas, step into the ring in bowler hats and layered skirts, throwing body slams and suplexes in matches staged for paying crowds. The film follows several of these women through training sessions, bouts, and the arguments they have with promoters over pay that lags far behind their male counterparts. Outside the ring, they describe the discrimination they face as indigenous women in a country where machismo runs deep, and how wrestling became a way to earn income and respect at the same time. Interviews with the wrestlers themselves carry the film, showing the gap between the spectacle audiences pay to see and the economic reality backstage. The costumes and choreography draw the crowds, but the documentary keeps returning to the wage disputes and gender politics that shape whether these women can keep wrestling as a livelihood at all.