Enero Zapatistas Bay Area + Chiapas Support Committee presents…

Film Night: Dispatches from Resistant Mexico, featuring the premiere of Lekil Kujlejal

Thursday, January 22, 2026

7-9pm

EastSide Arts Alliance + Cultural Center

2277 International Blvd

Dispatches from Resistant Mexico, a series of shorts on Indigenous resistance in Mexico, featuring the premiere of Lekil Kujlejal (40  min). In the mountains of Chiapas, a Tzeltal Mayan community organizes into a Community Government, as part of a movement that seeks to maintain and recover the millennial community practices of Lekil Kujlejal, or “right living”. Lekil Kujlejal seeks a holistic way of living that promotes mutual care and respect for nature and is rooted in the belief that all beings are interdependent. Films by Chiapas Support Committee member Caitlin Manning. Discussion with the filmmaker following the screening.

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Enero Zapatista Bay Area is a month-long series of events on Ohlone territory ( San Francisco Bay Area) commemorating the Zapatistas’ January 1, 1994 uprising. For more information about Enero Zapatista Bay Area please follow @enerozapatista.bayarea on instagram.