Guatemala Movies

In a remote church in colonial Guatemala, a young boy approaches the confessional to whisper a message no one should ever hear: the Virgin feels...

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...

A teenager has a project due, but starts working on it the night before and begins to have a crisis because he doesn't know what to do and because of...

Reis, a driving instructor at the “Closhi Freno” academy, is scammed when buying his first vehicle, after saving tirelessly and without...

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

Meet Mario and Alfredo, Guatemala's last train drivers.

Monica Chub, a trans Mayan Q'eqchi' woman shares her personal journey of self-discovery with Alex PV, a Maya Mam documentary filmmaker who travels...

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...

The screenwriter is living the pandemic with concern for his scripts and the crisis in Guatemala

At the end of the 1980s, a dancer recognized her father in the audience, now a trans woman, with whom she had not spoken for a long time because she...

An invisible narrator speaks (without temporal notion) about the reminiscences that evoke in him an introspective journey through memory, therefore,...

The spectral takes embodied form in Regina José Galindo’s ongoing performance series Aparición, which stages veiled figures in...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...