The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wire fences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies.

Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence.

Like other farmers from across the country, Roberto de la Rosa now walks on pathways riddled with booby traps. In recent years, it’s in Mexico that the number of defenders of the land assassinated has been highest.

AWARDS

Best Documentary – Humans Fest Valencia
Magnus Isacsson (Social Issues) and Students Jury Awards – RIDM
Best Documentary Feature Film – Crossing the Screen
Best Cinematography, Jury Prize – Moscow Int’l Doc Film Festival DOKer
Best Sound in a documentary – Le Gala Quebec Cinema
Best original music in a documentary – Le Gala Quebec Cinema

Director: Julien Elie
Producer: Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre
Associate producer: Julien Elie
Executive producer: Sylvain Corbeil, Nicolás Celis
Images: Ernesto Pardo
Additional images: François Messier-Rheault
Editing: Xi Feng
Original score: Mimi Allard
Sound: Daniel Capeille, Sylvain Bellemare, Hans Laitres