Spain's official entry in the foreign film category for the Oscars, Even the Rain, is based on the bloody beginning of the late Howard Zinn's famous A People's History of the United States, where the explorer Christopher Columbus is revealed to be more brute than hero. Director Icíar Bollaín weaves the Bolivian Water Wars into the narrative, thereby blurring the violence of past and present. Find out more in this video interview by Jika González.