
Peru and Bolivia - Inca Revolution
Indigenous communities across Peru and Bolivia are reviving symbols and language from the Inca empire as a basis for political action, and filmmaker Sandra Jordan follows that revival as it hardens into something closer to a movement. Community leaders, activists, and scholars describe centuries of marginalization under Spanish and later Western-style economic systems, and the film traces how resentment over land loss and resource extraction by multinational corporations has fed the rise of nationalist groups that invoke Inca heritage directly. Interviews carry most of the argument: people explaining why they see foreign investment and government policy as a continuation of colonial rule rather than a break from it. The film does not shy from the sharper edges of the story, including groups willing to use force and a political climate strained enough that observers raise the possibility of civil war. What emerges is a portrait of a decades-old grievance turning into an organized demand for sovereignty, told through the people making that demand.