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

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)

Trailer

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