A Six Dollar Cup of Coffee

A quietly absorbing documentary that follows a family's fight for fair coffee, blending intimate portraits with global trade and a looming plague.

Directed by

Alejandro Díaz San Vicente, Andres Ibañez Diaz Infante

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Petul Guzmán, Ana Gutiérrez, Jxel Guzmán

Tagline

Crop to Cup and All in Between

Overview

Through the eyes of a Tseltal family, our story connects a cooperative in Chiapas, which struggles to market its coffee as a finished product outside of the conventional market, with the trend of specialty coffee, third-wave coffee shops and Seattle, United States. Understanding coffee as a way to protect their identity, their land and the right to live in better conditions, our characters seek to sell their product abroad while a plague, which destroys coffee plantations from South America unstoppable, could mean the destruction of coffee in the entire continent.

How it feels

Earnest, warm and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Identity, survival, class, work

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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