A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
- Directed by
- Nettie Wild
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A look at the Zapatista rebel movement in Chiapas, Mexico. It follows the lives of the soldiers and the people they fight for as they evade the Mexican army.
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What happens
A Place Called Chiapas is a 1998 Canadian documentary film of first-hand accounts of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) the (Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas) and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight. Director Nettie Wild takes the viewer to rebel territory in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, where the EZLN live and evade the Mexican Army. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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