Synopsis

Screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, A Place Called Chiapas revolves around the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in 1994. Nettie Wild interviews the main faces of the uprising: Subcomandante Marcos, Bishop Samuel Ruiz, the army’s militants, Chiapas’ farmers, soldiers, persecuted people and members of the paramilitary group Paz y Justicia. 

* This copy was remastered from the source material and supervised by the director herself, in the Digital Laboratory of the UNAM Film Library.