2007 | Color | 58 min On 22 December 1997, forty-five indigenous residents of the small Southern Mexican village of Acteal were attending a prayer meeting in their village church when they were slaughtered by unknown paramilitary forces. They were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas (The Bees), who were supporters of the revolutionary Zapatistas but renounced their violent methods. The investigation into their deaths quickly went suspiciously cold. Scottish documentary maker Nick Higgins, an expert on Mexican culture and politics and the author of ?Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion?, attains unprecedented access to the place, the people, and the story behind a barely-reported atrocity Country: México, Escocia Direction: Higgins; Nick Production: Higgin; Nick Photography: Higgin; Nick, Valdés; Carlos Sound: De Oliviera; Marcelo Music: Padden; Daniel Participation year at FICM: 2007
2007 | Color | 58 min On 22 December 1997, forty-five indigenous residents of the small Southern Mexican village of Acteal were attending a prayer meeting in their village church when they were slaughtered by unknown paramilitary forces. They were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas (The Bees), who were supporters of the revolutionary Zapatistas but renounced their violent methods. The investigation into their deaths quickly went suspiciously cold. Scottish documentary maker Nick Higgins, an expert on Mexican culture and politics and the author of ?Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion?, attains unprecedented access to the place, the people, and the story behind a barely-reported atrocity Country: México, Escocia Direction: Higgins; Nick Production: Higgin; Nick Photography: Higgin; Nick, Valdés; Carlos Sound: De Oliviera; Marcelo Music: Padden; Daniel Participation year at FICM: 2007
If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More
Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More
40 + Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More
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