Peruvian Filmmaker Sami Hawka Explores Polyamory, Indigenous Rights and Resistance in ‘While Everything Falls’: ’Power Can Oppress People in Different Ways’

Peruvian Filmmaker Sami Hawka Explores Polyamory, Indigenous Rights and Resistance in ‘While Everything Falls’: ’Power Can Oppress People in Different Ways’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 12, 2026 11:15am PT Peruvian Filmmaker Sami Hawka Explores Polyamory, Indigenous Rights and Resistance in ‘While Everything Falls’: ’Power Can Oppress People in Different Ways’ Selected for VIFF’s Business Hub Co-Productions Forum and the Queer Palm Lab, the film explores marginalized communities and political resistance under a fictionalized dictatorship By Katherine Brodsky Plus Icon Katherine Brodsky Latest Beyond ‘Hollywood North’: How Vancouver’s Indie Film Scene Is Building Its Own Ecosystem 3 days ago Jeissy Trompiz’s ‘Three Houses’ Explores a Venezuela Where Afro and Indigenous Communities Sit on the ‘Periphery of the Periphery’ 3 days ago VIFF Winner Marie Clements Unpacks Musical Doc ‘Reclaim My Skin,’ Made During a ‘Renaissance Time for Indigenous Filmmakers’ 3 days ago See All What happens when the right to love who you want becomes an act of resistance? Peruvian filmmaker Sami Hawka is developing a feature, “While Everything Falls” (Afuera Todo Arde), which explores the fight for personal freedom under a fictionalized dictatorship in contemporary Peru.

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The story takes place in a conservative rural community where two members of a polyamorous triad marry to keep up appearances. But when their relationship is exposed by their third lover, they flee to the capital, where they become involved in a rebellion against the dictatorship and discover that their fight for personal freedom is inseparable from the struggle for Indigenous rights, the rights of other marginalized communities and economic equality.

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Related Stories ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Author Tomi Adeyemi Quietly Cancels New York Comic Con Panel Ben Stiller to Moderate Conversation With William Shatner at New York Comic-Con ‘Star Trek’ Panel (EXCLUSIVE) The Madrid-based filmmaker’s project is gaining momentum after being selected for the Vancouver International Film Festival’s Business Hub Co-Productions Forum and the Queer Palm Lab, an LGBTQ-focused development program associated with the Cannes Film Festival. Hawka is now pursuing international co-production partners and funding for the feature.

Popular on Variety “The film follows these characters who are in their bubble,” Hawka tells Variety . “But when they break [out of] the bubble, they start realizing that they have other forms of oppression” beyond queerness and polyamory, and that they share those experiences with other marginalized groups.

“In this rebellion, there are also a lot of Indigenous people and Indigenous movements that need vindication of their rights,” Hawka says, connecting the story to Peru’s colonial history and its enduring consequences. “When we as a culture experienced that…It had a very strong impact on our culture and on the lives that we had here.” Peru developed into a country that’s fractured, they explain.

“These people still need some sort of citizenship in this new order that’s not organized to fit their needs, or was built on inequality.” For Hawka, the story is also an extension of their own experiences as a nonbinary person with Indigenous roots. They spent a significant part of their childhood in Cusco, in Peru’s Andean highlands, attending an intercultural school where they learned Quechua and developed connections with Indigenous elders and spiritual traditions.

Those experiences helped shape both their understanding of gender and their approach to filmmaking. “I think it has helped me situate a place that needs vindication,” they say.

“It has helped me look at things f

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