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- The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
- Sebastian Mamani returns to his Aymara community from which he was expelled long ago. He is carrying the great mask of death, he must dance until he died, in a kind of atonement for the sins that caused his exile and as a way to be reborn in his lost cultural identity.
- A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia. The film starts with previous massacres and represions (starting 1942 in Catavi), before and after the bolivian Revolution, and puts the finger on the people responsible. All of this according to the director's belief of movies having to show what people wanted: and people wanted to know causes and responsibilities. A little reading on the history of Bolivia after the revolution should led to a better understanding of this film, for it was directed to people who actually lived the process (some of them acting in the movie), and many meaningful sequences and details may not be understood in all their symbolic and historic value.
- While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
- In the village of Tankuy, farmers are roused to revolutionary action against US based imperialism after one of them, an indigenous man, is brutalized by a landowner.Native non professionals contributed to and helped direct this example of radical, Collective oriented Latin American filmmaking.
- A rural community in the Ecuadorian Andes suddenly faces a land dispute with the legal representatives of a large company. The discovery of very rich ore deposits in the territory is the reason of the offensive greedy on those places, where the community lived since immemorial times.
- Through recreation of historical events, this is the story of Bolivia's indigenous people's struggle for their sovereignty, lost due to Spanish colonization and oppression. Bolivian heroes, whose stories are absent in official history, are finally told.
- A group of young national filmmakers arrive in an indigenous community to film there a film about the Spanish conquerors of the 16th century. In their behavior and in their eagerness to get the inhabitants of the region to cooperate with them, they reproduce the same defects and prejudices that they intended to criticize in their film.