The Year 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico. A teacher’s strike is brutally reprimanded by the local authorities. The population then decides to owerthrow the authority and govern themselves. After six months, President Fox deploys special armed forces to « restore order ». The is very little coverage of the events by the media.
Two years later, many still hope for a social change and dream of revolution. This film is born from the want to understand what drives a woman or an elderly person to leave their homes to build barricades.
- Original title : ¿En Oaxaca no pasa nada?
- English title : In Oaxaca nothing happens?
- Year : 2009
- Country of production : Belgium, Mexico
- Running time (min) : 44′
- Format : Mini DV 16/9
- Film genre : documentary
- Sound : Stereo
- Image : color
- Language : Spanish – French
- Subtitles Version : French – Spanish – English – German – Italian
Festivals:
. Cinestrat (España/Perù)
. Contra el silencio todas las voces (Mexico DF)
. Globale (Montevideo, Uruguay)
. Prodocumentales (Langreo, España)
. Mention spéciale du Prix Cinégalité au Festival Elles Tournent (Bxl, Belgium)
. Festival de Cinéma d’ATTAC (Bruxelles, Bélgica)
. Festival Vivre Debout (Perwez, Belgïe)
The documentary was screened in the Cinema’s Voyageur tour in France 2011. It was also screened during the promotional tour for Pauline Rosen-Cross’s book « ¡Duro Compañer@s! Oaxaca 2006 : récits d’une insurrection mexicaine ».
