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- Guided by ayahuasca chants, GREEN RIVER. THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS is a poetic journey into the depths of the Amazon. The film explores the perception of time in three small villages intertwined by the flowing waters of the Amazon river.
- MOTHERS OF THE LAND accompanies five women from the Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land.
- Pasco, a mining city in the Peruvian Andes is one of the poorest and most polluted cities throughout the world. Everyday their citizens, especially children, suffer the impact of lead in blood and TNT explosions, and other abuses of the Peruvian mining enterprise Volcan. Latest studies made in kids concerning lead in blood, detected that a great number of them have higher rates of lead surpassing those accepted levels dictated by the World Health Organization (WHO). In Pasco, lead pollution has caused to the mining enterprise Volcan an accumulation of artificial mountains made of useless minerals in front of housing.
- Early every morning, young Jorge harvests bananas with his machete. After breakfast back in his village, he wanders with his friends in the lush wilderness around the Amazon headwaters. Childhood could hardly be more carefree or peaceful.
- A journey downstream the Peruvian section of the Amazon by boat: loading and unloading sugar, chickens, onions, lemonade and building material, the crew, and the passengers travelling hammock to hammock on deck.
- Through the mystical world of the Andes, we follow Valya, who after spending a year in jail for a crime she didn't commit, wanders around the streets of the ancient Incan city of Cusco. The shadows of the past soon overwhelm her, but life in prison transformed Valya into a determined fighter for the love she has for Paz, a young Peruvian woman from Cuzco, who during Valya's incarceration felt compelled into a fictitious marriage of convenience to calm the punishing waters swirling around the presence of the supposed demon Valya in Paz' ultraconservative family. Only Andean magic can help the two lovers. But the path the Apus, the Andean Mountain spirits layout is drastic....
- Maribel and Carmencita are two indigenous girls who work in Cuzco Central Square, taking pictures with the tourists in exchange of a tip. Leon, Maribel's father does not have a regular job, which causes fights with Ines, his wife and the rest of the family.
- Sonia Mamani lives in Capachica, an island in the Lake Titicaca. She learned to cook tradional Peruvian dishes at the age of fifteen, and since then she dedicates her life to teach indigenous women how to overcome poverty with their cooking skills.