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- DirectorKenneth MullerStarsDiego AlfonsoFernando CuautlePedro Javier Silva LiraThe story of an Mayan pastor who led his people out a holocaust during Guatemala's internal conflict. Based on the book: Escaping the Fire.
- DirectorRafael RosalStarsGiacomo BuonafinaDaneri GudielMiriam ArenasSet 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.
- DirectorKenneth MullerStarsCostanza AndradeJuan Pablo AsturiasTuti FurlanThe 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.
- DirectorAndres RodriguezStarsClara ColopAntonia MaldonadoHector RamosHector 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.
- DirectorFritz OfnerGuatemala. The war ended long ago. Though the people want to forget it, the violence continues, and it has spread throughout the society like cancer. Each day, journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, and a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed. The global hunger for cheap resources has been another cause of violence, and a war over bananas has taken on a life of its own. The society suffers from the aftermath of the 36-year civil war. Mass graves are found in the mountains, former rebels mourn their comrades, and a war criminal has nightmares about all the things he has done. Peace continues to elude Guatemala.
- DirectorAntonio Jara VargasErnesto Jara VargasStarsFederico PicadoDarío SalasGustavo VargasPuerto Limon, Costa Rica, 1948. Four days before Christmas, Setico a 12-year-old boy must take a train in search of his father. A trip that will reveal the forgotten memories of this banana enclave and the murder of six political prisoners in a place known as Devil's Elbow.
- DirectorFederico CurielÁngel RodríguezStarsRaúl MartínezSuperzanFederico CurielTres extraterrestres aterrizan en la Tierra, y se hacen amigos de un niño pequeño pastor. pistolas de rayos de los alienígenas pueden "congelar" las personas, y que pueden desaparecer y reaparecer a voluntad.
- DirectorChema RodríguezStarsRafael RojasJesús TecúPatricia OrantesGuatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he's scared. Pedro's wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as "her new son" - even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family - until his sister appears.
- DirectorNewton Thomas SigelPamela YatesStarsRigoberta MenchúSusan SarandonA documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with firsthand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.
- DirectorMichael GassertSami KhanStarsVictor BaróCarlos O. GonzálezHappy OliverosThree young Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the Major Leagues.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsPatricia CondeEmilio FernándezAndrés SolerPaloma is a young blonde indigenous woman who arrives in a coastal town and goes to the local cantina to murder Danilo Zeta in cold blood. But the young woman is captured and, upon being tried in the public square of Puerto San José, she refuses to speak. In prison, after giving birth to a child, Judge Justo and her wife Amalia encourage her to tell them her past.
- DirectorManuel Zecena DiéguezStarsRossano BrazziFlor ProcunaCameron MitchellBarreiro, the head of a revolutionary movement in a Latin American country, asks for asylum in a foreign embassy. The ambassador, Mr. Lara, though under pressure from the government, refuses to budge on his ideals that an embassy should offer political immunity. So he helps to get a safe exit for the revolutionary, even though his wife once had an affair with the man.
- DirectorAlfredo B. CrevennaStarsNorma LazarenoAna Luisa PeluffoRaúl RamírezA woman has got a sugar-daddy paying her bills, and while she's stringing him along, she meets somebody her own age that she truly falls in love. And it turns out he's the son of her rich dude.
- DirectorMathew CharlesJuan Luis PassarelliIsrael 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.
- DirectorAlejandro Castillo CloseStarsR. Brandon JohnsonArloa RestonJorge PupoVisiting American journalist Johnson finds more in Guatemala than he's bargained for. His reporter contact is missing and nobody's looking for him; his first assignment is to meet with priest Pupo, so fevered with the advent of Satan that he clobbers an altar boy he fears is possessed; but there's also love, in the form of nurse Arloa Reston but who is she meeting in the jungle? Cosmic discussions of good and evil, with Pupo and a nihilistic colleague, turn into a battle for survival with the still-lurking forces of repression.
- DirectorLuis ArguetaStarsOscar AlmengorPablo ArenalesHector ArguetaA boy struggles against his stifling family life during the 1954 Guatemala coup.
- DirectorMiguel Ángel RodríguezStarsAlejandro TommasiIsela VegaAdrian MoralesAdrian Morales goes to the town of Jutiapa, after his father ordered him to do so. He had the task to pick up identification cards needed to carry arms. Colonel Fuentes, friend of his father, is who is given them. When he arrives to the town, Adrian is mistakenly identified as a guerrilla member and they hold him captive as a prisoner. He is then hooded and tortured in search for a confession about who and where the leader of the guerrilla is. Adrian does not return with the identifications. His brother and sister-in-law search for him. When they arrive to the town, they discover the chilling truth. Colonel Rodriguez believes in Adrian's innocence, creating an even bigger conflict within the military headquarters.
- DirectorDoron EranStarsDaniella KerteszMaya EshetLuna MansourInspired by a best selling true story by Sharon Yitzhaki. Sharon went to Bolivia with a young guy she barely knew. She was framed and accused of smuggling 10 kilos of cocaine across the border. They threw her into Bolivia's most atrocious women's prison. News stations picked up the story and Sharon soon became the most "famous" woman convicted in the country. She carried on a tempestuous love affair with the head of the Bolivian drug cartel who was in the adjacent men's jail. With this connection she became the biggest drug dealer in the prison. Sharon's gathered around her a 'family', adopting a seven-year-old orphan girl and bonding with a beautiful transgender. She got addicted to cocaine but recovered so she could look after her 'family'. A lucky break came when the Pope declared a "Holy Year of Mercy" for the millennium, and Sharon used a loophole in the law to escape with her 'family' to New York. This happened before her 26th birthday... and it's all true.
- DirectorPeter SchnallStarsMartin SheenThe workers in a Coca-Cola bottling subsidiary plant in Guatemala attempt to unionize.
- DirectorBonifaz DiasNitin SawhneyThe film follows young artists in Guatemala who use dance, performance, and poetry to intervene in a former train station, converted to a military base in 1945, where untold violence was perpetrated for decades. They seek transform the dark memories of the space, while bringing light to its silenced past.
- CreatorAlejandro LeyvaCandelabros is a story based on Narel Alrashidi, who becomes the first president of the country and the largest drug trafficker in the region.
- DirectorEva VilamalaIn 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.
- DirectorSergio RamírezStarsEduardo CabreraDaniela CastilloAlejandro Díaz1991: 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.
- DirectorRay FigueroaStarsJuan Pablo OlyslagerLuis Carlos PinedaFredy TurciosA young woman is brutally assaulted by gang members in the middle of Guatemala City. As usual, the authorities have no suspects or leads, leaving the girl to become one more victim in a society where thousands of women are assaulted every year. Jacobo, the victim's brother, along with Antonio, his best friend, decide in their frustration to extract some their kind of revenge. They kidnap a random gang member from the streets and drive him to an abandoned warehouse, where they torture and beat him. But the consequences of their acts will soon become evident and they will have to make a decision that will affect their lives forever.
- DirectorSebastian LojoStarsMarvin NavasCarlos Morales El PunisherDaniela CastilloKoki 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.
- DirectorScott Owen MooreAfter 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.
- DirectorElías JiménezStarsFelipe GómezCandelaria HernándezWalter Paz JojWhere the Sun is Born tells the story of the Maya People through four stories which allude to important moments in the in its history over the course of the last half millenium. The central protagonist in all these stories is young woman named Maya who witnesses the invasion of her homeland and must run away to survive. Then living a nomadic existence as a refugee across the centuries she experiences the sufferings of her people resulting from the loss of her ancestral lands and increasingly her cultural traditions.
- DirectorRay FigueroaElías Jiménez TrachtenbergStarsJuan Pablo OlyslagerJulio SerranoEdgar ArreolaIn 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.
- DirectorEnrique Pérez HimStarsDomingo LemusDaneri GudielJairon SalgueroJoel 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...
- DirectorAnaïs TaracenaIn 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.
- DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsMaría Mercedes CoroyMaría TelónManuel AntúnOn the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
- DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsMaría Mercedes CoroySabrina De La HozMargarita KenéficAn aging paranoid war criminal, protected by his faithful wife, faces death while being haunted by the ghosts of his past.
- DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsJuan Pablo OlyslagerDiane BathenMauricio Armas ZebadúaThe coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.
- DirectorRafael LanuzaStarsNorma LazarenoLeonardo MoranGuillermo AndreuTerremoto En Guatemala relata lo sucedido en el pas de Guatemala en el a±o de 1976 tras el terremoto de magnitud 7.6 en la escala de Richter. En torno a este suceso, nos muestra adem¡s la impactante historia de amor y compromiso de una pareja de reci©n casados victimas de tan tr¡gico suceso.
- DirectorElías Jiménez TrachtenbergStarsJuan Pablo OlyslagerMonica PalmieriJorge 'El Pumita' AsturiasShot 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.
- DirectorDelmer DavesOtto PremingerStarsCornel WildeConstance SmithFinlay CurrieIn the 18th century France, Jean-Paul, who was cheated out of his inheritance, land and titles by his uncle, decides to go to Guatemala in search of a famed Mayan treasure.
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsPaulina GaitanMarco Antonio AguirreLeonardo AlonsoA young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.
- DirectorGregory NavaStarsZaide Silvia GutiérrezDavid VillalpandoErnesto Gómez CruzAfter their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
- DirectorIsaac-Pierre RacineAgustí VillarongaLydia ZimmermannStarsDaniel Giménez CachoCarmen BeatoZóltán JózanAro Tolbukhin is a hungarian inmigrant that sets fire to seven people in an infirmary in a Mission in Guatemala, the movie traces back to see what made him do it, from his arrival in Guatemala to his childhood in Hungary.
- DirectorBrian GibsonStarsDemi MooreAlec BaldwinJoseph Gordon-LevittA juror in a Mafia trial is forced to convince the other jurors to vote not guilty by an obsessive mob enforcer.
- DirectorMel GibsonStarsGerardo TaracenaRaoul Max TrujilloDalia HernándezAs the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.