Guatemala Movies

During the 1980s the Guatemalan army launched ruthless counter-insurgency campaigns against indigenous communities, killing or displacing thousands....

Merly, a young woman, takes refuge in writing to evade an event from the past, which she will face when one of her characters comes to life.

In a small seaside town in Guatemala, Alba and David, two young friends who secretly like each other, make a deal before entering university: If they...

Widows is a documentary about the wives of pilots, who have been killed while working on the streets of Guatemala City. Being a van or taxi driver in...

Through some of the last interviews with him before his death, Guatemalan filmmaker Anaïs Taracena bravely and artfully pieces together...

About leaving a home to inhabit another one.

Luis has lived peacefully in Santa Esperanza, one of the most dangerous cities in the Federal Republic of Central America, until the day he witnesses...

An experimental film, black and white 16 mm film, made specifically to be submitted to the Ann Arbor Film Festival depicting a life drawing class...

On the last day of sixth grade, a boy walks one final time through the hallways, classrooms, and the places where he grew up alongside his friends....

René, a bus driver in Guatemala faces gang extortion while struggling to protect his son. Desperation leads him to take extreme measures to...

A short method film about a stream gone wrong involving a female video game streamer and her interviewee.

A fantastic discovery gets out of hand when artisanal fisherman Nacho and his young nephew Pato accidentally catch a childlike mermaid in their net....

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...

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

Abel takes his girlfriend Meryem to Quetzaltenango to meet his conservative family during the Guatemalan Independence Day celebrations. While Abel...

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

After the genocide in the eighties in Guatemala, a community survived as displaced. In a town between Mexico and Guatemala, they show the will to...

Enduring 28 days of relentless construction labor, Frank struggles to prep a house for painting amidst Phoenix's scorching pandemic summer.

Tomacorriente, by Sergio Valdés Pedroni, is a history of urban rock in Guatemala; an audio and visual journey through five decades...