After showings of Yawar Mallku, Sanjinés learned that many peasants had criticism about the difficulty of his films due to the use of flashback for narration, as his film-making was greatly influenced by European art cinema, and about the lack of attention to denouncing the causes of the indigenous peoples' issues.
Despois da estrea de Yawar Mallku, Sanjinés aprendeu que moitos labregos tiñan críticas pola dificultade de entender o filme por mor da narración con flashback, xa que a súa maneira de facer cinema estaba moi influída polo cine europeo, e tamén pola falta de atención a denunciar as causas dos pobos indíxenas.