Guatemala Movies

"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into...

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...

In a world drifting further away from participatory food production, relying instead on large corporations to feed us, this film asks “What do...

James A. FitzPatrick takes a look at colorful Guatemala.

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of...

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...

Throughout the centuries the quetzal has survived from its mythological symbolism in the Mexica and Maya pantheons to the fragile species that...

Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than...

Relámpago Negro is a professional wrestler who lived in his own flesh the golden age of wrestling in Guatemala. 40 years later everything has...

Focuses on 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, as she discusses the lack of human rights for the indigenous people of Guatemala and her...

Jorge Luís Altuve is a young Guatemalan, passionate about mountaineering and a lover of his country. After the COVID-19 crisis and the lack of...

We begin this short visit to Guatemala at the port town of Livingstone, then journey up the Rio Dulce. We stop to watch men tap the trees, harvest...

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

A newlywed couple finds their lives thrown into chaos amid the destruction of a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Guatemala.

A documentary about Guatemalan volcanologist and filmmaker Alfredo MacKenney.