Movies: Xun Sero

Mayan culture still thrives among the Tzotzil people of San Andrés Larrainzar, a town in southeastern Mexico. Each inhabitant shares responsibility for the collective well-being but only a few are called upon to serve the gods—often in a dream....

Marino Mariano is a musician and fisherman from Collantes, an Afro-Mexican community on the Costa Chica of Oaxaca. Despite being illiterate, he composed more than 46 songs. Now, at 68 years old, he dreams of recording the songs he still remembers. Al...

In this deeply moving dialogue between mother and son, Mexican Tzotzil director Xun Sero confronts his past with honesty, understanding and forgiveness. Growing up without a father, he blamed his mother for the paternal absence in his life; this, for...

Elena, a Tsotsil Mayan woman from San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas, is appointed Municipal Trustee by a purely male community assembly....

The "affluent and white" society of Chiapas has historically marginalized the region's indigenous communities. This systemic bias often results in crimes being wrongfully attributed to individuals with indigenous features, based solely on description...