Artist's Choice Screening: Blood of the Condor

This rarely-screened film from ‘60s Bolivia tells the story of an indigenous community who turn against a group of foreigners called the ‘Progress Corps’ when it transpires that under the guise of development, the foreigners have been forcibly sterilizing the peasant women. 

The story of the film was based on accounts from indigenous people told to the film’s director, Jorge Sanjinés. The film however, provoked such a reaction in the Bolivian public, that it has been credited as one of the major factors which led to the expulsion of the real-life American ‘Peace Corps’ from the country shortly afterwards.