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- It documents the celebration of the All Saints and Departed Feast, each November. This celebration highlights the concept of death as an inseparable part of life for the Aymara. According to their beliefs, the souls of the departed remain with the living between November and February, and during this period they are responsible for ensuring the rains and taking care of the seeds for them to bloom abundantly.
- Documentary in which the Catholic religious beliefs and the beliefs of healers in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes oppose; when they (the healers), the Church and ordinary people try to give explanation to a natural disaster.
- In this video there's an analysis of the coca growers' current problem considering the alternative development programs imposed by the United States. These programs try to replace the cultivation of coca for other activities that supposedly will improve the economic performance. Farmers from the producing areas testify the main problems they have faced, after the failure of some of the most important projects.
- A logging company enters the indigenous community of Beni in Bolivia and begins logging. They hire local people make promises of the benefits they will receive, but the Indians gradually become aware of the logging company's deceptions and rapacious behavior, and they drive them out. This marks the beginning of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Beni.