Compañía (Five International Movies to Stream Now)

Venture beyond your usual streaming hide-outs this month and sample some of the treasures in “ThousandSuns Cinema: Indigenous Edition,” a free online series hosted by the Media City Film Festival and copresented with Cousin, an artist-run collective supporting Indigenous filmmakers. The series rounds up an eclectic variety of films made by Indigenous artists from around the world. One recommendation from among its many gems: “Compañía,” by the German-born filmmaker Miguel Hilari, who is of Aymara descent. A trance-like visual odyssey driven more by rhythm and sound than by narrative, this mesmerizing documentary revolves around an Indigenous community in Bolivia whose members journey from the city to their ancestral village in the Andes Mountains to celebrate a festival honoring their dead.

Hilari weaves together evocative, fog-shrouded shots of the natural landscape and close, tactile scenes of the community’s everyday urban lives with snippets of interviews in which various individuals recount stories of death and migration — so that both kinds of departure become parallel, flecked by loss, grief, hope and more. Like several other films in the series, “Compañía” is as much a document of a community’s rituals as it is a kind of ritual in itself, a gesture of preservation and remembrance in the face of rapid change.