Sayariy

High in the Bolivian Andes, Tinku, an annual spring ritual, occurs between two villages near the end of April. Believing that a little human blood must be spilled to insure new life and a good harvest the village men don leather helmets and the women their brightest clothes and head off for rival mountain towns where they engage in a melee of fisticuffs. This Italian documentary chronicles one such Tinku celebration.