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Charts the preparations for Tinku, the raucous annual festival in Tamacuri, an ancient village high in the Bolivian Andes and home to the Macha people. Tinku is a chaotic, deadly affair banned by the village...
A video-based resource pack to illustrate the complex role of the United Nations in responding to conflict and problems around the world. The four 30-minute programmes are: 1) The Great Disaster: the history...
Two programmes looking at how the world’s governments are responding to UNICEF’S call to ratify and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child. They chart the progress of global ratification...
Documents the lives of the Aymara Indians, who live on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, who live at subsistence level in a lush landscape and have revived some of their ancestral farming techniques.
This film was made at the invitation of the Sirionó Indians living in Ibiato, a small village with 500 inhabitants in the rainforest of northern Bolivia. The Sirionó call themselves ‘Mbía’ (people)....
In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted...
About women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives - image and reality - the models of society and the facts of poverty and violence. Focuses on three adolescent girls in a...
Aymará women embody a common paradox. The cultural ideal is that women should be subservient to men, and assigned tasks appropriate to their inferior strength and intelligence. In fact, they perform many...
The deep division in Andean society between campesinos and mestizos, rural and townspeople, begins at birth, is perpetuated by the schools, and continues through life. Evidence of discrimination’s physical...
An old Bolivian man nears the end of his life. He has property and status but not contentment. Possessed of evil spirits, he reveals his anguish.
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