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Browse 12 movies from Grupo Ukamau
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
Nov 1969
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 'til death.
Sep 1989
Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
Jul 1977
In the remote Andean highlands of Peru, a tight-knit indigenous peasant community has endured generations of brutal exploitation by local landowners. When a shocking act of violence exposes the complete failure of the official justice system to protect them, the villagers’ simmering anger pushes them toward a crossroads.
Jun 1974
A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.
Jun 1971
Documentary that offers a great overview of the history of Bolivia, their misery, the popular indomitable spirit and repressions that occur without pause.
Jun 1963
Bolivian drama that serves as a plea for tolerance of cultural diversity in that country.
Jan 1995
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.
Jan 1977
carefully reconstructs the events in Bolivia between 1979 and 1982. Dark years. Speaking of Alberto Natush's coup d'etat, the massacre of Todos Santos, the murders of Luis Espinal and Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the worker, peasant and student mobilizations, García Meza Tejada's coup d'etat and the return to the democratic process.
Dec 1982
A Bolivian miner belonging to the pirquiñeros (independent workers that extracts ore in dangerous places abandoned by mining companies considered depleted) struggles to get some mineral by drilling the rock only with a chisel and a hammer.
Jan 1965
Jan 2004
After several years a student returns to his native village only to find that despite the agrarian reform act of 1952, nothing has changed in the treatment of peasants, and racial discrimination continues.
Jan 1974