The film recounts the journey that took the Zapatistas from Isla Mujeres, in Quintana Roo, to Galicia, (northern Spain), at the rhythm of a blog. With which they began a symbolic tour of several countries, which was considered “a conquest in reverse”.
“They came to invade our lands. Well, now we are going, but not to loot what is there, but rather we are going to plant it”, narrates one of the crew members in the trailer for the film.
The feature film premiered on January 29 as part of the official selection of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, in the Netherlands, which ends on February 5.
“The mountain recounts a collective navigation of a broader journey of the EZLN throughout five continents, in order to share its seed of rebellion and embrace othernesses that fight against fear”, is how Diego Osorno describes the spirit of The mountain.