Guatemala Movies

While playing football, two young shoeshine boys lose the boxes they need for work. Their search turns into a small adventure, where the carefree...

The spectral takes embodied form in Regina José Galindo’s ongoing performance series Aparición, which stages veiled figures in...

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...

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

An unfinished short film that, at the dawn of contemporary Guatemalan cinema, offered a raw look at the circumstances of marginalized urban youth.

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...

An undocumented immigrant recounts memories of his childhood home while telling the story of the handmade wallet tied to his journey across the...

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

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...

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

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

The artist's shadow becomes the target of a violent act directed against the self, staged using a 9mm pistol. Regina José Galindo confronts...

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

The screenwriter is living the pandemic with concern for his scripts and the crisis in Guatemala

José Rubén Zamora, founder and president of investigative daily El Periodico, and his family have been persecuted for decades in...

Poems from different eras are intertwined with an immigrant's present.