Sara Flores, the artist representing Peru at the current Venice Biennale, says every exhibition she takes part in is a chance to direct attention toward her people's struggle. In an interview published October 13, the Shipibo-Conibo artist told Hyperallergic that showing her work functions as a platform for the self-determination and cultural resistance of the Shipibo community of the Peruvian Amazon. The conversation coincides with the release of a new documentary, The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (2026), directed by Èlia Gasull Balada and Matteo Norzi. The film follows Flores through her rapid ascent in the art world. It opens deep in the Amazon rainforest — a canoe gliding across water, an elderly woman stripping bark and boiling it to freehand geometric ink designs — before cutting to Flores in New York, where she had a show at the now-closed Clearing gallery on the Bowery. Stills from the film were provided by the Shipibo Conibo Center. The documentary begins its festival run on October 19 at the 50th São Paulo International Film Festival. Its United States premiere is set for Wednesday, November 11, when it serves as the opening-night selection at DOC NYC, streaming online from November 12 through November 29. The timing places an Indigenous Peruvian voice at the center of two major film programs within weeks of each other. Flores's visibility marks a rare moment in which an Indigenous Amazonian artist holds a national pavilion at Venice while simultaneously becoming the subject of an international film. Her insistence that fame itself is a tool — one she turns outward toward her community's political fight rather than inward toward her own career — gives the feature its weight: art world stardom reframed as a form of advocacy.