Guatemala Movies

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

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,...

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...

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

'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...

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...

This film is made so that people realize that evil doesn't solve things, it only makes them worse, and it can bring us to a place of torment.

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.

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

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 .