Guatemala Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Video Trans Americas comprises footage from Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, where Downey documented native cultures. He challenged the...

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

About leaving a home to inhabit another one.

"Regina José Galindo’s Tierra (2013) explores connections between the exploitation of labor, resources, and human life in Guatemala....

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...

An intimate cinematic letter where the director embarks on a journey through fragments of her memories of her late aunt, uncovering the parallels...

Reis, a driving instructor at the “Closhi Freno” academy, is scammed when buying his first vehicle, after saving tirelessly and without...

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...

An invisible narrator speaks (without temporal notion) about the reminiscences that evoke in him an introspective journey through memory, therefore,...

An attempt to hold onto the physical and emotional memory of a restaurant built in the 1950s and recently demolished to make way for a tower.