Documents the origins in Chiapas and on a national level the Zapatista National Liberation Army rebellion, following its initial negotiations with the Mexican government. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show

This documentary invites viewers to reflect on the needs that are generated in the West through the lives of four sisters aged three to nine who live in Isla del Sol, a place with no police force, no churches, no motors and no petrol... What is it like to live without these powers that be? The father of the four girls talks about his life in an unedited 40 minute interview accompanied by images of his daughters.

“By documenting the production of panela (a raw brown sugar), with which we sweeten our food and drinks, this video offers a glimpse of life in my indigenous community, where work, happiness, and suffering is shared. It also provides insight into how cultivating our own food contributes to our struggle to be self-sufficient and reduces our worries about money”.

A succession of mysteries are repeatedly ordered and observed. A ritual for creating meaning. Dreaming, a daily exercise in the free interpretation of reality.

When night falls, the Colombian countryside undergoes a transformation. Danger lurks in the dark. Carmen, a peasant woman in her fifties, knows it well. This film finds the right distance to absorb her tale of a tormented life, while drawing the audience into the harsh world of the Colombian peasant through one of its most fascinating aspects: the oral tradition.

In a Colombian state, a distressed group of indigenous people under the white man pressure (army, paramilitary and guerrilla), meet together to ask the "bunachi" (white man) to live them alone.

An investigation into the fraud in the 2006 Mexican elections that saw left-wing front-runner Manuel Lopez Obrador lose to right wing candidate Felipe Calderon.

Lance Henson, a Cheyenne poet who lives in Italy, returns to the US every year for poetry readings and to renew links with his tribe. This year he travels by car through native territories, where Peyote medicine heals and helps people to conduce their lives. He travels from the Cheyenne reservation at Concho, Oklahoma to the Conchos river in the Tarahumara Hills in Mexico. Lance writes a journey diary during the trip which includes Peyote Songs and poems.

This video brings us the voices and minds of Farmers from Cuzco, Peru. They explain what school they want for their children, what education is needed for life to flourish and for the strength of ancestral times to be carried over to new generations. Over the past decade the Nucleus for Andean Cultural Affirmation CEPROSI has been working in Cusco with groups of rural teachers and parents in order to attain an understanding of education and cultural diversity. The reflections they make on the way in which Andean children learn of both worlds, western and Andean, lead them to unexpected conclusions that deserve to be listened to and taken into account.