Guatemala Movies

A youn man with a broken heart believes to have another chance in life.

'Ixoq' ('Woman' in Kaqchikel-the local Mayan language) A young Guatemalan mother dreams of a better future for her son, when an organization...

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...

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...

A bittersweet drama and intimate road movie about the clash of two different worlds. Marta, a once-popular Polish singer, receives devastating news...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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