Is ancient Inca spirituality the key to halting climate change?

A filmmaker troubled by climate anxiety travels to the Peruvian Andes, where Q'ero and other Indigenous communities face failing crops and extreme weather, to see whether their animist worldview offers hope.

A personal, visually striking journey that questions whether ancient Andean beliefs can answer modern climate despair.

“This project was born from a place of deep anxiety regarding our future in the face of climate change,” says director, cinematographer and editor Jeff Mertz, whose film captures the indigenous communities at threat from

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