Guatemala Movies

The Maya Mam invite you to celebrate with them as we follow Jun Kanek who’s getting ready to participate in a traditional ceremony honouring...

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

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...

Print of Sleep 2016 is a is a single-channel video with sound of a durational performance by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. Edited down to a little...

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

A Guatemalan woman, Ana Lucía Cuevas, returns home from exile to face the brutal history of Guatemala's armed conflict. In 1984, her brother...

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

"Regina José Galindo’s Tierra (2013) explores connections between the exploitation of labor, resources, and human life in Guatemala....

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

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

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...

Two Mayan Tz'utujil brothers who decide to rob gas stations on the Panamerican Highway to pay extortion fees from gangs and the hospital debt they...

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

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

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