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- An aging paranoid war criminal, protected by his faithful wife, faces death while being haunted by the ghosts of his past.
- Married to a brutal cartel boss, a woman seeks freedom with a smuggler's help. But the northbound journey unveils his disturbing reality, thrusting her into a surreal odyssey
- Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
- The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.
- On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
- A working-class girl from Guatemala City travels to a small coastal town to infiltrate a gang in order to find her missing sister.
- The days are numbered, run.
- Ernesto is a young anthropologist in Guatemala. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a "guerrillero" who went missing during the war.
- Three middle-class teenagers out on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their "colonia".
- The dying Guatemalan war veteran agrees to accompany a girl searching for information about her grand father, his comrade in arms. Flash backs show the campaign the men fought in when young.
- Shot inside of one of Guatemala's most dangerous prisons, with it's inmate population as actors in the film. VIP is the story of Juan Ramos, Guatemala's sub accountant is arrested and placed in preventive prison while the charges against him of corruption and homicide clear. Although he pays handsomely to be put in the VIP sector of the prison, he is taken to the worst and most dangerous sector. His battle for survival begins, in a jail where the golden rule is only the strong survive. Through blood, sweat and tears, Juan begins to learn and navigate the murky politics in and out of the cells. Juan will learn that the members of the VIP sector that oppose him can be more powerful and deadly that any of the crooks and thieves he associated with on the outside.
- Joel Fonseca is a 28 year old slacker who gets up every morning to drink beer and play his guitar. One day his routine is interrupted by his older sister who asks him to take care of her 6 year old kid. Joel thinks he can handle it but things get complicated when the kid disappears from the house. Joel will have to spend the rest of his day trying to find his nephew around his neighborhood before his sister finds out. Along this quest, he runs into different people from his past that will make him realize that he hasn't changed in the past ten years. Joel starts to think that it's time for a change. If only he could find his nephew...
- Five friends go out for the best night of their lives and their last together. To hunt for love, cheap drinks and salvation.
- While a sixteen year old girl is possessed by an evil spirit, her mother tries to find help, but everything goes wrong with horrible consequences.
- Simón is a physicist who measures the length of Karma in space-time. This opens a new perception of reality where everything will collapse. Justice, truth and knowledge are metaphical representations of reality.
- Martin and Margot are two writers traveling through Guatemala to find La Bestia, the mythological poet that brought them together. In their journey their relationship and future will be compromised by an unexpected pregnancy.
- 1991: Guatemala is at war, but this is not an issue for Daniel and his friends. All they want to do is have fun. They travel around with baseball bats, but their goal is not to play a game, they are on the hunt.
- Documentary about how the Mesoamerica jungle is being exploted. A history of a man searching to own nature, who through experiences of the unique and beautiful Quetzal bird, ends surrending to its mitical magic and freedom.
- Hector returns to his village after a long and difficult migration. He comes home a family and a community that pushes him out. He takes back his life by way of force, driving the whole town into chaos.
- Israel is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds murdered and buried by the rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street.
- In the 1970s, journalist Elías Barahona, also known as "The Mole", infiltrated the heart of one of the most repressive governments in Guatemalan history. The film captures the moments when revelations from the past explore the cracks in the walls of silence that surround the country's secret history.
- Paco is a quiet man who travels to Xela (Quetzaltenango) from the city to put ideas in order and his life in perspective now that the only thing he values in life, his wife Cusi, is blatantly cheating on him with his best friend. He seeks solace with the help of the only person he trusts: his uncle Juancho, buried fifteen years ago in Xela's cemetery. Unadvertedly, his path is crossed by Willy, a local Quetzalteco who has just lost his job, clearly distraught and willing to pour all his anger towards life on this new comer, a stranger to him, whom he drags through the "Sixth State City" at gunpoint. Paco will try to find the means to escape this kidnap and find a resolution to his life's questions, while Willy seeks the courage to pull the trigger and get it over with. During the kidnapping, a strange friendship is forged that gradually winds up revealing the source of each of their problems.
- Captain Orellana, a former police investigator now working on his own, has been tapped for the wackiest, most dangerous case of his long career. He's hired by the department of health to examine the strange occurrences in a remote village.
- This film dramatizes one of the most famous legends of Guatemala: The tale of 'El Sombreron' or 'The man with the giant hat' who is considered to be a most frightening specter.
- Koki makes a living in Guatemala City by winning the trust of people while arranging the theft of their possessions. By day he is a guide to tourists who get mugged at gunpoint, by night he seduces men only to lead them back to Carlos's hotel, where they will be robbed. Koki and Carlos function as two sides of the same coin, justifying these violent activities through the need to survive. When Koki becomes the target of one of his victims and, as a result, is swiftly replaced by Carlos with another young good looking boy, he can observe what had up to then been his life in what feels like a disembodied experience.
- Patricia Castañeda (Hamy Tejada) comes from a wealthy family in the picturesque Guatemalan province of Zacapa. She's madly in love with a cowboy, Emilio Aldana (Ricardo Godoy). Her father, Rafael (Gonzalo Estrada) who suffers from a gambling addiction, disapproves because Emilio is destitute. Rafael decides Patricia will marry a wealthy man from the capital even though she doesn't love him. Meanwhile, Nicanor (Roberto Santandrea) tries to woo the Castañeda's family maid, who innocently makes the road to love difficult for everyone.
- After the death of Silvia, Mother calls Emma by the name of her deceased daughter. Emma has become Silvia. All the rituals of beauty in order to be the perfect Silvia become harder and harder as time goes by, but Emma will keep trying to become what Mother expects...
- UFO sightings are reported in northeastern Guatemala. Rober Daneri a frustrated college professor along with the production team of a sensationalist TV show embark on a supernatural journey across the thin boundary between blind faith, self-delusion and the unknown in search of truth.
- Logan and his little brother Alex have a fight while they are on a camping trip. Later that night, Alex leaves the tent alone but never comes back. When Logan goes looking for him, he discovers a mysterious creature is stalking them in the forest.
- People go through five stages after a breakup: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In "Ruptura", Ale and Juanpa will experience the same stages in reverse. A short ROM-COM about endings and beginnings.
- Rocio, a Maya Mam girl, lives in the mountains with her mother, who is pregnant and her granny. Due to an early delivery from her mother, Rocio is stuck with caring for a herd of sheep, the first time she has done it on her own. Playing in the mountains she loses one of the sheep. Looking for it, she will lose the rest of the herd. In the midst of this tragedy, Rocio will have to face her innocence, conquer her fear of fog and learn that freedom entails responsibility. Nature will teach her that you do not have to defeat your fears, you just have to experience them. The Greatest House in the World is a story of children -which we all are- when facing fears, the unknown, the uncertain... the fog.
- Don Alfonso is a deliveryman. He also plays marimbas, the traditional Guatemalan instrument. He is used to play a folkloric musical show in one of the fancy hotel of Guatemala City. He faces the population's lack of interest for his instrument, considered like out of date and old fashioned. Black is pioneer of the Heavy Metal Guatemalan underground stage. He also is also a doctor in the public hospital but nobody wants to be treated by him because of his long hair and his tattoos. When Don Alfonso and Black meet each other and decide to combine their talents and create a brand new project called Marimbas from Hell, they could never have imagined all the reactions they would provoke among the population.
- A writer enjoying a flamenco concert in a musical bar, shows us that there is many ways to perceive romance.
- After a long, devastating 36 year civil war in Guatemala, victims are being transformed into champions who willfully embrace their past to help repair the next generation. This is their story.
- LENCHO, a 30-year-old artist and graffiti writer, is back in Guatemala after living a decade in New York. Eager to bring artistic expression to his home country silenced by over 30 years of terror, Lencho assembles a collective of artists to produce public art projects of social impact. As its first activity, the group organizes an art festival in Rabinal, a small, indigenous village in the Guatemalan highlands. The group's work comes of interest to the director of a secret "social cleansing" program of the national police designed to quash dissension and organizing among the youth. As Lencho labors to coordinate the music, poetry and muralism components of the festival, he finds himself increasingly haunted by memories of the death of his father, a journalist during the civil war. "El Regreso de Lencho" portrays one man's journey to self-knowledge and action: can Guatemala do the same?
- Set during the civil war in 1980s Guatemala. A group of six men and a woman must find a way to work together to protect the village of Las Cruces from an impending military attack. The indigenous population of the area, inevitably is torn between their need to help and thoughts of fleeing, for self preservation.
- A moving, thought-provoking and rare documentary by a Latin American woman, recording her return from exile and into the still dangerous and volatile political environment of contemporary Guatemala. Where over the course of four years, writer-director Ana Lucia Cuevas discovers, through the archived records of the perpetrators of the crimes themselves, the involvement of her own government and foreign Intelligence Services in the abduction, torture and murders of her brother and his young family.
- In Guatemala, the systematic repression of indigenous people led to a bloody armed conflict from 1960 to 1996 that left behind more than 200,000 dead, the majority of whom were Mayas. In an environment of fear and threats, the photographer Miquel Dewever-Plana worked for years documenting the exhumation process and gathering testimonies of numerous victims that are now part of the book 'The truth beneath the ground. Guatemala, the silenced genocide'. Years later, he returned to the Mayan communities to deliver this book to those who had shared their stories.
- Two women meets at the funeral of a shared lover. They receive an inheritance related to a cow.
- A regular day for Bans and Uzu, little did they know a series of events would bring them face to face with an alternate reality and their chance to confront Dixon, a disturbed psychopath with blood on his hands and demons in his mind.
- The documentary follows a group of Latin American environmentalists and scientists on their risky expedition through the second largest coral reef in the world.
- In Guatemala, violence is contagious. The neighbors of Villas de La Esperanza, in fear of an eventual invasion of those infected by violence, arm themselves and patrol nights, risking their lives for the safety of their families. But battling violence with violence only spreads the contagion, and the neighbors will soon realize that the greatest danger is not what lurks outside their secure gated community. The real danger lies within. In Guatemala, violence is contagious, and we are all infected.
- A boy struggles against his stifling family life during the 1954 Guatemala coup.