La joven revolución hondureña (2009) - Johannes Wilm

This documentary "The young Honduran revolution" was made by German-Danish activist Johannes Wilm. While working for the revolutionary Nicaraguan government he snuck across the border to Honduras in early August to document the resistance movement in the neighboring Central American republic, after a military coup had overthrown Leftist president Manuel Zelaya on June 28th. By coincidence he documents how for the first time in nearly thirty years the majority of students rise up against the police in a battle of 3000 students fighting police on the campus of the Autonomous University of Honduras in Tegucigalpa on August 5th.

The documentary shows where the student leaders come from, what their analysis of the current situation is, what plans they have for changing it, and what perspective for the future they see both for them personally and for the country at large. It is 90 minutes long and it is made in Spanish with English subtitles.
The film has so far been shown in various cities in the south west and in 12 countries in Latin America. It has been featured by a number of Latin American magazines and in the US by the Monthly Review and the Upside Down World site. It will be shown in Los Angeles at the "Human Rights Film Festival" on the 23rd of October, then in Hermosillo, Sonora where it will be shown to journalist students of Kino University on the 27th and to other students at the University of Sonora on the 29th. In Arizona where it will be shown amongst other places at the U of A on the 9th of November and at ASU in Phoenix on the 4th and. At UC Berkley the SDS will present it on the 12th of November.


Tras el golpe de Estado del 28 de junio de 2009 en Honduras, donde secuestraron al Presidente constitucional, nace un movimiento popular sin precedentes por su caracter nacional. Los estudiantes, miembros de la resitencia popular, explican sus razones y su visión en medio de este conflicto que cobró revuelo continental. Filmado en agosto de 2009 mientras el presidente aún se encuentra en el exilio involuntario.
Filmado días después del Golpe de Estado, este documental muestra impresiones, opiniones y posturas del pueblo centroamericano en su lucha por la democracia y por la restitución del Presidente Constitucional José Manuel Zelaya. En la viva voz de los estudiantes y de otros protagonistas hondureños.