Guatemala Movies

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

The past of Pedro, a famous photographer, haunts him for several months, but everything changes when Javier, his brother, shows him what he...

About leaving a home to inhabit another one.

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

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.

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...

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

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...

A poor and desolated boy is bullied by the rich kid from school. Amidst his despair, he finds solace: Boxing.

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...

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...

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

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...

Aurora has been running Bar Asturias for more than four decades. As the neighborhood changes and longtime customers pass away, Aurora keeps alive the...

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.