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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.
- After 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.
- A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
- A fugitive lives apart from society, in a swampy area, right in the jungle, with the company of his grandson.
- José lives with his mother in Guatemala. It's a tough life in one of the most violent and religious countries. When he meets Luis, he's thrust into new-found passion and pain.
- Life and death of software pioneer John McAfee who developed the software: McAfee Antivirus.
- The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.
- Post-colonialist gothic: A young woman rebels against the joyless rigors of her fundamentalist-Catholic home and runs away to shack up with an occultist-anthropology writer who has come to town to study the practice of santeria.It ends badly, with a Church Lady becoming the orisha's instrument in the enactment of a PapaLoa's Curse.
- 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 young Hollywood player is drawn into a remote place looking for a quick deal and instead finds a sanctuary, a community, and ultimately himself.
- A scientist and his family return to the island of Rarotonga, the white goddess.
- After the disappearance of her boss, Selma feels the need to go find him. She travels to the mountains where she discovers a murder. Destiny forces her to face her fears and she learns that only a couple of seconds are enough to get over them.
- A 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.
- I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real and is my longing about what? Then who are this people?
- Koki 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.
- 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.
- A man goes on a murder spree after the criminals that took the life of his wife.
- Ambiguity is an action, drama, thriller, adventure film that brings to light the reality of illegal immigration to the US.
- Bboy for life is a powerful story on how the lives of break dancers in Guatemala City are affected by the worlds most dangerous gangs.
- Hi. I'm Hammad, a short, slight, ridiculously lucky kid-at-heart who has watched 98% of my childhood dreams come true. I'm also disabled, and becoming a card-carrying member of the brotherhood of the physically challenged is the single luckiest event I've ever experienced in my life. These moments have helped me grow far beyond my tiny frame. Some of these snapshots are comedic, while others are tragic, but all of them are littered with the abundant truth that if I can limp my way into the life I love, anybody can achieve anything.
- Actress Ali McGraw shows the plight of poor children in Guatemala City, Guatemala, whose families--many of whom have been displaced by the decades-long civil war in the country-- are so poor they are forced to live in the city's large trash dump because they have no other way to find work, food or shelter.
- Resistance as democracy, activ8media's first documentary production, examines el salvador after the revolutionary war of the 1980's. resistance explores grassroots democracy in action, democracy under duress in a country still controlled by the authoritarian right-wing party, ARENA.resistance presents salvadoran grassroots popular organization as an alternative to electoral politics, dominated by corporate money and u.s. influence. resistance also examines the economic battlefield, as the 1990's brought a change from a military war to an economic one in the form of neoliberalism, privatization, and structural adjustment programs.includes interviews with howard zinn and vandana shiva, as well as workers, campesinos, and community members most dramatically affected by the neoliberal model.
- Soon as a positive case of a new virus is located at her workplace, Sofia is forced into quarantine. After days of Isolation and uncertainty, she begins to fall into a spiral of paranoia.
- This anti love story follows a young woman, Constanza, as she struggles to transcend the moral hypocrisy of her native Guatemala. As fiction overwhelmed by reality, Constanza's journey becomes an exploration of the circumstances surrounding the burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala.
- Complete presentation of the banana industry from the clearing of the jungle and the planting to the shipment of the fruit to the American markets.
- Apla's is the story of Father Stanley Rother, who while trying to improve his parishioners' condition of life in Guatemala, was murdered amidst political turmoil between Guatemala's government and indigenous peasant formed guerrillas. Rother is now in the process of becoming a saint.
- Small farmers in rural Guatemala fought for justice and obtained pieces of land through protests and appeals at the Guatemalan High Court. They now build their own new villages (pueblos nuevos) and future on this newly obtained land.
- Adolescence, the stage when desires and enthusiasm collide with reality, is the framework for the story of Sol, a 17-year-old girl whose true passion is playing soccer. Along the way, she must face the prejudices of society, and even her own father, and learn to count on friendship as the key to living her dream.
- Donde acaban los caminos (Where the roads end) it's the encounter of two different worlds that live together but remain separated at the same time, since ancestral times. The doctor Raul Zamora goes on a trip from the city to a remote town in the lake Atitlán where this two parallel worlds converge between the "Naturals" and the "Ladinos". Zamora won't take long before falling in love with Maria Xahil, a "Natural", causing in the rest of the town and the villages a dilemma between the different communities. It's a panoramic vision of the abuse of power, repression and racism that collide in this diverse society surrounded by the calm of nature. The adventure of Zamora and Maria will have a turning point marked by the personal interest and conflicts of each separated worlds.
- LENCHO, a 30-year-old artist and graffiti writer, is back in Guatemala after living a decade in New York. Eager to bring artistic expression to his home country silenced by over 30 years of terror, Lencho assembles a collective of artists to produce public art projects of social impact. As its first activity, the group organizes an art festival in Rabinal, a small, indigenous village in the Guatemalan highlands. The group's work comes of interest to the director of a secret "social cleansing" program of the national police designed to quash dissension and organizing among the youth. As Lencho labors to coordinate the music, poetry and muralism components of the festival, he finds himself increasingly haunted by memories of the death of his father, a journalist during the civil war. "El Regreso de Lencho" portrays one man's journey to self-knowledge and action: can Guatemala do the same?
- When a couple starts falling apart, it may be because there's no room for love anymore.
- An elder woman's body starts to betray her, so her housekeeper sees to take care of her. This changes the boundaries of their relationship. The housekeeper faces the decision to keep her job or go back home.
- A shattered heart starts reminiscing through poetry and self reflection about a timeless memory.
- This Traveltalks short takes the viewer to Guatemala's capital, Guatemala City, and offers a brief survey of local history, customs, landmarks, and contemporary activities.
- This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer. Pamela has just been released from hospital, incurably sick. Near the border to Switzerland she runs into Mayrhoefer, who's now on flight from the police. In flashbacks Pamela remembers the time they met, when she was 22 and they fell in love and had a great, but limited time together.
- 2 friends meet every 10 years to talk about their dreams and how they are pursuing them.