Bergman Was Right Films

A set of memories, a series of readings. After two hundred years as an independent nation, Peru has many forgotten struggles in different territories and from different times. Marking the country’s bicentennial anniversary, this super 8mm film brings together activists and families in a compilation of speeches from history’s B-side. A beautiful, stirring expression of liveness, agency, resistance, and the intergenerational obligation to renew and refresh our communal commitment to rights and democracy.

Families remember. The prosecutor warns of imminent danger. Victims and citizens share experiences, feelings, and warnings about a regime seeking to perpetuate itself once again. The daughter's crimes are added to the father's burden. Voices from the present and the past intertwine in a country that seems eternally condemned to suffer the same dynasty time and time again.

Peru, 2009. In the northern jungle region, a mining company enters the depths of the virgin forest to begin searching for mineral resources. This entry is made with the permission of the government but without the consent of the native Awajún, the indigenous people who live there. What began as a social protest ended in a national crisis.