The White Guard (2023)

Original title

La garde blanche

Directed by

Julien Élie

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

12A

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines how multinational companies, criminal groups, and the Mexican government work together to take land and resources from people. It profiles specific cases of violence and exploitation tied to this collusion.

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What happens

The White Guard (French: La Garde blanche, Spanish: La Guardia blanca) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Julien Élie and released in 2023. A followup to his 2018 film Dark Suns, the film delves further into the issue of violence in Mexico, profiling the collusion between multinational industry, organized crime and the government of Mexico to expropriate land and exploit people and natural resources. The film premiered in September 2023 at Filmfest Hamburg, and had its Canadian premiere in November at the 2023 Montreal International Documentary Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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