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Visually interweaving the Mayan past with contemporary reality, The Sixth Sun portrays an epic confrontation pitting impoverished peasants against large landowners and government forces in Mexico’s poorest state, Chiapas. The film raises global questions as to what is to what is to be judged expendable in the rush to economic integration whether the destruction of cultures can be accepted as the price of progress. The film features rare in-depth interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, the ski-masked poet-warrior, and other principles in the Zapatista movement amidst scenes of the mountains and jungle from which the rebellion sprang.