Diego Enrique Osorno is a first-rate reporter and filmmaker in relation to tackling Mexico’s sophisticated political and sociocultural points. Now, Osorno follows up his 2019 Netflix restricted collection “1994” with “La Montaña,” which has its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam this weekend.
“La Montaña” follows Osorno and cinematographer María Secco on a voyage throughout the Atlantic with Squad 421 of the EZLN, or Zapatista Army Of Liberation Nacional, in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic because the group sails to Europe in hopes of discovering allies of their political wrestle to construct a greater world.
Here’s an official synopsis for “La Montaña”:
In 1994, a bunch of indigenous peoples within the mountains of Chiapas, Southern Mexico demonstrated with an rebellion that rise up towards the system was nonetheless potential. Almost thirty years later, that very same organisation, the Zapatista Army of Liberation Nacional (EZLN), set sail aboard a hundred-year-old ship and voyaged throughout the Atlantic Ocean to Europe within the midst of a worldwide pandemic.
With solely the Director and Cinematographer invited onboard, every of the seven indigenous folks of various generations, intimately recount their wealthy historical past and the revolutionary achievements of the EZLN. The final aim of this impartial military is to unfold the message that with a purpose to change the world, we should first change the way in which we take a look at it.
Osorno’s different current work consists of the 2022 brief “La evalución” and the 2019 doc “Vaquero del mediodía,” concerning the disappearance of Osorno’s long-lost buddy, poet Samuel Noyola.
Look on the poster and trailer for “La Montaña” beneath. The movie has its world premiere this Saturday, January 28.
