Cartel Land
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In one of the most remarkable documentaries of 2015, Katheryn Bigelow-produced and Oscar-nominated Cartel Land is set in a drug cartel-controlled part of Mexico, ridden with horrific violence, and simultaneously in Arizona across the American border.
It tells the larger-than-life story of two different men taking the law into their own hands. Initially a simple premise: One vigilante in Arizona taking up arms and patrolling the border, afraid of the brutality of the cartels spilling across, and another man in Michoacán organising a local army to fight the cartels as the government does nothing to protect the population.
But as the director gets deeper and deeper embedded in the unsettling situations, the border between right and wrong, victim and perpetrator starts to blur. Cartel Land puts us unflinchingly right in the middle of a raw, disconcerting but also thrilling real-life story.