📽️ Mesoamerican Caravan for Climate and Life (Solidarity Screening)
On the 5th of October we (Gira Holanda, Perrx and Debt for Climate NL) organize a movie screening at Filmhuis Cavia to support the Caravan for Climate and Life.
This caravan will travel from Mexico to Brazil to use the platform of COP30 to amplify the stories and demands of communities defending their land and fighting for environmental justice. As they respond to the war on life by uniting struggles, raising a collective voice and traveling together for climate justice and debt cancellation. We ask you to come and join and support the Caravan and enable the strengthening of the ties of our siblings in Mesoamerica.
You can read more about the Caravan for Climate and life: here
We are screening three documentaries that show the resistance of indigenous and local communities against extractivist projects in Mexico, as well as the struggle for life and climate justice.
- Doors open at 20:00
- Documentaries start at 20:30
- There will be Q&A after each documentary.
The South Resists
Ricardo D'Aguiar | 2023 | 29’ | EN subtitles
This documentary follows a protest caravan of the indigenous women-led resistance against the megaproject of the interoceanic corridor in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in southern Mexico. It sheds light on recurring development plans implemented by the Mexican government, resulting in land dispossession, income loss, precarization of labor, migration, and environmental degradation. The caravan is met with intimidation and an escalation of violent repression as it threads its way through small villages and towns in the region, to alert and mobilize the population.
We are the Wind: Resistance on the Isthmus to Mareña wind park
Kolectivo Kolibri | 2013 | 35’ | EN subtitles
This documentary shows the conflict generated by the intention to establish the San Dionisio del Mar Wind Park on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, focusing on the realities and opinions of the inhabitants of the region and giving voice to people who don’t appear in the commercial media. The film also shows the logic of the wind parks in a more global vision, briefly explaining what lies behind corporate promises of “green energy” and “clean development”.
In the waist of Mexico: Interoceanic Corridor
Gloria Muñoz Ramírez | 2019 | 35’ | EN subtitles
Twelve indigenous peoples live along the 260 kilometers of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the waist of Mexico, distributed among more than 500 Chinantec, Chochoco, Chontal, Huave, Mazatec, Mixtec, Mixe, Zapotec, Nahuatlaca, Popoluca, and Zoque communities. All of them have resisted the projects presented to them in the name of so-called progress. And today is no exception. An interoceanic corridor conceived by yesterday's and today's rulers is once again being planned on their territories. “It may be the last battle,” they feel in the Isthmus. This documentary is part of the project “Right of reply: The people speak,” produced by Desinformémonos. Grassroots journalism.
Free entrance
