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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.
- On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
- The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.
- The days are numbered, run.
- 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.
- A working-class girl from Guatemala City travels to a small coastal town to infiltrate a gang in order to find her missing sister.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- A boy struggles against his stifling family life during the 1954 Guatemala coup.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The documentary follows a group of Latin American environmentalists and scientists on their risky expedition through the second largest coral reef in the world.
- Visiting 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Three middle-class teenagers out on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their "colonia".
- The meaning of love divided by three.
- Sin Ruta tells the story of a gay musician from Guatemala, who is brutally attacked as he tries to flee his country and an American doctor, who is hiding from US authorities in Guatemala after accidentally killing one of his patients.
- 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.
- A writer enjoying a flamenco concert in a musical bar, shows us that there is many ways to perceive romance.
- Both scientific and deeply personal, The Checklist Effect is a feature length documentary for anyone who's ever had surgery, or loved someone who has. Inspired by Atul Gawande's award-winning book The Checklist Manifesto.
- Terremoto 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.
- Camila is a wealthy young woman who suffers a traffic accident and falls into a coma. She wakes up in the body of a patient in the hospital, and not understanding what is happening, she contacts Rafa, her boyfriend, to help him with his entanglement, and to prevent her father from a scam that Celina, her father's girlfriend, is orchestrating. The day after contacting Rafa, Camila changes her body again, and that complicates the whole situation because Camila will have to deal with these random body changes while trying to get closer to her father to prevent him from betraying her sentimental partner.
- Living in the shadow of the war their father died in, two siblings wrestle with the consequences of their country's violent past. When Tamara's indoctrination of her younger brother is interrupted by a romance at school, both redemption and tragedy struggle to overtake all their lives. Filmed on location in post-civil war Guatemala, 'Guns' stars and was co-written by the daughter of a Sandinista guerrilla and shot using all local student cast and crew.
- The earth still moves under the serpent's torsion.
- 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.
- "Finding Together" tells the love story between Eddie and Byron, a couple that begins their relationship prior to COVID-19 and are forced to navigate the complications that the pandemic puts in their way: distance, work, and having to live together without knowing if their courtship will work. Part of the LGBTI-themed short film series #HistoriasDiversas.
- FONSI is an apparently privileged 12 year old boy. As we get to know his dysfunctional family, his world begins to crumble in a matter of hours. Due to a series of unexpected events, each character changes drastically, facing a crude reality.
- His passion is electronic dance music and he will face himself and make an important decision in his life to achieve his dreams.
- 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.
- Amparito and Willy have been playing original music for 30 years and have never recorded a song. Faced with the adverse and with an advanced age on top, they are presented with the opportunity to capture their work, once and for all.
- Five friends go out for the best night of their lives and their last together. To hunt for love, cheap drinks and salvation.
- Brandon is the son of the market butcher. He is in love with Yuly, Doña Berta's daughter, who has a food stand. She secretly has a relationship with Brandon who delivers the meat orders to everyone in the neighborhood. One night, Yuly breaks the news to Brandon that they will soon be parents. After coming to his senses from the shock, he worries a lot, as he has to do many important things: earn more money, secure a place to live, and the most dangerous of all; ask for Yuly's hand in marriage to Don Hermelindo, her future father-in-law with all the news of the pregnancy. After several unsuccessful attempts to do activities in addition to meat delivery, they learn of a wrestling event where a large sum of money is offered for three minutes against El Verraco, the local wrestling champion. Brandon has run out of alternatives so he signs up to try his luck. But after seeing what the fights are like, his chances of coming out on top are almost nil. Now he doesn't know what scares him more, wrestling El Verraco or going to talk to his father-in-law.
- 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.
- Tres amigos: Chente, Linares y Mijo, atravesando la crisis de los treinta, emprenden un viaje al lago de Atitlán para cumplir el último deseo de su recién fallecido amigo de la infancia, que es tirar sus cenizas al lago y tomarse los últimos cuatro litros en su nombre.