La Garde Blanche

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

Magnus Isacsson Award – Montreal International Documentary Festival, 2023
Student Jury Award – Montreal International Documentary Festival, 2023

FESTIVALS

Official Selection – DOXA Documentary Film Festival, 2024
Global Docs Competition – DocsMX, 2023
Nominee to Political Feature – Hamburg Film Festival, 2023
Official Selection – Doclisboa International Film Festival, 2023

PHOTO GALLERY

La Garde Blanche

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

Magnus Isacsson Award – Montreal International Documentary Festival, 2023
Student Jury Award – Montreal International Documentary Festival, 2023

FESTIVALS

Official Selection – DOXA Documentary Film Festival, 2024
Global Docs Competition – DocsMX, 2023
Nominee to Political Feature – Hamburg Film Festival, 2023
Official Selection – Doclisboa International Film Festival, 2023

PHOTO GALLERY