Habilito: Debt for Life (2010)
• August 25th, 2010 • 0h 51min
Documentary
Overview
Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. It focuses particularly on a system of debt peonage known locally as ‘habilito’. This system is used throughout the Bolivian lowlands, and much of the rest of the Amazon basin, to secure labor in remote areas.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Broken Rainbow
Released on: 1985-05-05
Documentary, History
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
The Devil's Miner
Released on: 2005-11-05
Documentary
'The Devil's Miner' tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection whi...
Uapishka
Released on: 2023-10-14
Documentary
North of the 51st parallel, where the dense boreal forest opens onto an arctic islet, the snow-cappe...
Against the Tide
Released on: 2023-01-20
Documentary
Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship b...
Keep Talking
Released on: 2017-03-16
Documentary
Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the fut...
The Money Masters
Released on: 1996-01-01
History, Documentary
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...
Debt
Released on: 2004-10-07
Documentary
DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hung...
Red Fever
Released on: 2024-05-01
Documentary
Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound -- yet hidden -- Indige...
These Are My People...
Released on: 1969-10-20
Documentary
This documentary short is the first film made by an all-Aboriginal film crew, training under the NFB...
Neiwa
Released on: 2016-02-17
Documentary, Drama
Fate has foreseen two different paths for the inseparable twin brothers Orlando and Lisandro. One wi...
Overdraft
Released on: 2012-01-01
Documentary
Overdraft is an award-winning film featuring leading thinkers and policymakers from across the aisle...
Maxed Out
Released on: 2006-03-10
Documentary
Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as ...
Attiuk
Released on: 1963-07-19
Documentary
The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...
Harlan County U.S.A.
Released on: 1977-01-23
Documentary
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...
Mom n' Me
Released on: 2010-06-09
Documentary
The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and he...
Tokyo Ainu
Released on: 2013-05-15
Documentary
TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its ...
Resident Orca
Released on: 2024-04-06
Documentary
Resident Orca tells the unfolding story of a captive whale’s fight for survival and freedom. After d...
Women in the Shadows
Released on: 1991-01-01
Documentary, History
Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces ...
This Was the Time
Released on: 1970-01-01
Documentary
When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), held a ...
Button Blanket
Released on: 2009-10-22
Documentary
This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the pe...