Come Back, Sebastiana (Jorge Ruiz, Bolivia, 1953, 27 mins): Sebastiana, pre-adolescent shepherdess on the austere Andean plateau, is the focal point for this survey of life practices among the declining Chipaya, wary neighbors of the more prosperous Aymara. The anonymous narrator admonishes the young girl throughout, urging her to steel herself against hunger and privation in order to ensure the continuity of her people. The stark beauty of the setting and the early call to resist cultural assimilation distinguish this seldom-seen but often-cited dramatized ethnography. Throw Me a Dime (Fernando Birri, Argentina, 1958, 30 mins): A masterpiece of faux-sociology, Birri's now-legendary film focuses on groups of children from a marginal community who risk life and limb running along railway trestles to beg money from riders in passing trains. Begging has never been so breathtakingly kinetic; throughout, Birri builds an understanding of the economic and demographic imbalances which motivate such desperate dare-devilry. Hope (Mady Samper, Colombia, 1985, 25 mins): The homeless Esperanza-sometime mother, sometime lover, sometime clown-inhabits a realm where memory, reshaped by fantasy and delusion, embellishes an ungenerous reality. Missing Children (Estela Bravo, Argentina, 1985, 30 mins): The trauma of three generations comes into focus in this film about the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the children of the disappeared who have, after years of protest and searching, been reunited with their families. The children are aware that they are both the heirs of a national disgrace, and the hope that it will never be repeated.