Movie Night – “People without Faces”, the Zapatistas

It is our pleasure to invite you to a movie night screening the documentary “People without faces” about the Zapatista movement in Mexico. The documentary is created by a group of enthusiasts from Russia, as a result of 1,5 year of filming in Mexican autonomous communities. The film is composed of the video shot in 2012-2014 in Chiapas in cooperation with other independent filmmakers, Mexican autonomous media and NGOs. The screening is organized as a praxis project within the 9-months political education program “MPs 2030”

MPs 2030 is a project by IMPACT e.V. for the political education of young people who were not born in Germany but who live here and want to become politically or civically active. We impart knowledge about the political system in Germany and current political debates, bring participants together with role models and support them in improving the skills they need for their involvement in politics and civil society.
Synopsis
In 1994, a group of armed insurgents emerged from Mexican Lacandon junggle. They claimed their revolt was a move of desperation, an attempt to reveal the miserable living conditions of local indigenous population. Armed conflict lasted just several days, but the fight is still going on. Twenty years after the insurgency thousands of indigenous people participate in civil Zapatista movement, which opposes all existing governments. In the most remote part of Mexico they are building "another world" – self-sufficient alternative society, autonomous and independent from traditional institutions. At the same time Zapatistas create vast solidarity networks, that include sympathizers among local population as well as volunteers of non-governmental organizations from all over the globe.
Logistics
• We ask you to follow the distancing rules due to the COVID-19 regulations
• The movie will be in Spanish with English subtitles
• The screening will be followed by a short discussion
• Please fill in the following form so that we can organize thoroughly, we will send confirmations to 25 persons so that the room is not over occupied

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• One Drink will be offered by us at the bar FOR FREE
•This project ist Jointly funded by STF e.v.