CONFORM: THE MENNONITE MIGRATION TO MEXICO

A Plett Foundation and Refuge 31 documentary
Written and Directed by Andrew Wall
Produced by Andrew Wall and Kyle Bornais
Photography by Markus Henkel

Conform: The Mennonite Migration to Mexico is a TV-hour documentary that examines the fascinating story of the Mennonites that left post WW1 Canada for Mexico. The Mennonites, after a long (and rather public) conflict over the right to educate their children as they saw fit in Canada, felt that their original agreement with the Federal Government had been broken. The very agreement that had allowed them autonomy over all matters of education and had brought them from Russia to the Canadian Prairies in the first place during the 1870’s. Standing on principle and guided by faith they would again migrate en masse to  Mexico. A state that was willing to allow the autonomy that the Mennonites had sought once again.

COMPLETED 2022