How I Learned to Work

2004 | Color | 7 min

The non-profit organization Melel Xojobal (meaning True Light in Tzotzil) produced this video with the purpose of promoting discussion with indigenous boys and girls about their experience with migration and cultural adaptation in the city of San Cristóbal. How I Learned to Work also emphasizes the notion that ?work dignifies? and reveals the inter-ethnic dynamics of Chiapas? multicultural landscape.

Country: México
Direction: Moreno Burgos; Marcela
Participation year at FICM: 2008

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