PRODUCTION: ARTE
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: France
PRODUCTION COUTRY: Peru
DATE: 2026
LENGTH: 24′
DIRECTED BY: Sophie Bontemps

Between 1996 and 2000, Peru became the scene of one of the largest forced sterilization campaigns in modern Latin American history. More than 300,000 people were sterilised across the country, many without their free and informed consent. The campaign primarily targeted the poorest regions of Peru, especially Indigenous communities in the Andes and the Amazon. Nearly three decades later, this documentary meets survivors still waiting for justice. Their struggle has become a symbol of the fight against gender-based violence, discrimination, and the abuse of state power over the most vulnerable.