Saul Kak

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

A story of globalization filtered through the fever dream of a Mexican shaman, The Modern Jungle is also an intimate portrait of Zoque culture, commodity fetish, and the predicament of documentary.

A sensory exploration of the Zoque community, which was evicted in 1982, after the Chichonal volcano, in the northwest of Chiapas, erupted. It examines the richness of indigenous cultures and the pressures to which they are subjected to maintain their land and rights.