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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.

The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.

While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.

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.

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.

Bolivia, 1967. A near-documentary depiction of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin mine workers and their families by the army near the town of Llallagua. Beginning with similar atrocities in 1942, the narrator details their terrible social conditions, further repression, murders, and their eventual justified shift toward radical actions. The story culminates in the tragic year of 1967, with the largest massacre of unarmed workers and their families in Bolivia's history. The film also features survivors who lived through these events.

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.

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.