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2020 | Color | 17:56

Twenty two years after being brutalized by a state-sanctioned paramilitary massacre, the people of Acteal celebrates its martyrs and persists in its demands for justice. The voice of Gaudalupe Vázquez Luna is the voice of the “Messengers of Peace,” that once again, in an act of dignified rebellion, rises to expose and decry the harassment, looting, marginalization and exclusion that indigenous people have suffered for over 500 years.


Direction: Anza; Octavio
Production: Silva; José, Tomé; Roberto
Photography: Hadit; Rosa
Sound: Baca; Ariel
Music: Coro de Acteal
Cast:Vázquez Luna; Guadalupe
Participation year at FICM: 2021

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