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#12,000 All-time worldwide
#228 1998 releases

Movie profile

A Place Called Chiapas

1998 · 93 min · Onf | Nfb

Documentary
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $229,000
Budget $891,000
Gross minus budget -$662,000
ROI 0.26x

Domestic gross

$91,600

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$137,400

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$25,648

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where A Place Called Chiapas ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #12,000 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #228 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Studio / company #2 Onf | Nfb of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Onf | Nfb movie set. Primary genre #170 Documentary of 204 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#11,996 Jinnah 1998 · $230,000 #11,998 Dust of Angels 1992 · $229,844 #11,999 Judgment in Berlin 1988 · $229,556 #12,001 A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later 1986 · $228,000 #12,002 Insomnia 1997 · $227,569 #12,003 Bellman and True 1987 · $226,944

Quick answer

How did A Place Called Chiapas (1998) perform at the box office?

High confidence

A Place Called Chiapas (1998) earned a reported $229.0K worldwide against a reported $891.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$662.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.26x. In this database it currently ranks #12,000 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #228 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$229,000
Budget
$891,000
Gross minus budget
-$662,000
ROI
0.26x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild travelled to the country's jungle canyons to film the elusive and fragile life of this uprising.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 20, 1998
Production
ONF | NFB
Countries
CA, MX

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, A Place Called Chiapas is positioned in this dataset as a Documentary title from ONF | NFB. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $229,000, reported production budget is $891,000, gross-minus-budget is -$662,000, ROI is 0.26x. For comparison, it currently sits #12,000 all-time in the current chart set and #228 among 1998 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.