Guatemala Movies

From night to dawn, Ramírez-Figueroa holds a shrouded block of ice until it melts to create a ‘blanket that could weep.’ This...

José Rubén Zamora, founder and president of investigative daily El Periodico, and his family have been persecuted for decades in...

Mayan conceptual artist Benvenuto Chavajay prepares his most recent performance. His odyssey begins at his exhibition in Paris' Pompidou Centre,...

Voice of a Mountain is a video documentary of the lives of rural Guatemalan coffee farmers who took up arms against their government in a civil war...

Four Paths to Dignity profiles the pursuit of dignity for Guatemalan midwives. The midwives confront challenges, as they battle racism and a health...

A lepidoptera, when studying butterflies, will realize that its relationships and butterflies have something in common

An urban middle-class woman accidentally discovers ancestral ways of understanding reality and life in a Guatemala that reveals magic and wonder.

Katerin Ixtabalan, her Guatemalan family and a large community of immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona fight against an uncertain future in the US .

The artist's shadow becomes the target of a violent act directed against the self, staged using a 9mm pistol. Regina José Galindo confronts...

While playing football, two young shoeshine boys lose the boxes they need for work. Their search turns into a small adventure, where the carefree...

At El Portal, an iconic bar in Guatemala City's historic center, a poet from the generation that nearly changed the country's destiny in the 1970s...

Poems from different eras are intertwined with an immigrant's present.

Luna (15) desecrates graves in the cemetery where she lives with her father César (55) who works as a caretaker there. She sells the valuables...

An unfinished short film that, at the dawn of contemporary Guatemalan cinema, offered a raw look at the circumstances of marginalized urban youth.

Documentary that narrates the excursion of a hundred and a half people to the towns of Quiriguá and Río Dulce, organized by the then...