Grupo Ukamau

Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.

Documentary that offers a great overview of the history of Bolivia, their misery, the popular indomitable spirit and repressions that occur without pause.

A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.

A guerrilla group arrives in an indigenous community of the Peruvian sierra with the intention of recruiting volunteers.

A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this Bolivian story, a man remembers his life while on a journey which will help him expiate his sins and which will result in his death. The focus on the story is on a man who has betrayed everyone he knows. He is planning to perform an ancient ritual dance which will end with his life being taken. He journeys from where he was living back to the village where most of the people he wronged still live. As he journeys, carrying his distinctive dance costume, his story is told in flashbacks. Once he gets there, he gets involved in the affairs of the villagers once more.

Bolivian drama that serves as a plea for tolerance of cultural diversity in that country.