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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two women meets at the funeral of a shared lover. They receive an inheritance related to a cow.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ambiguity is an action, drama, thriller, adventure film that brings to light the reality of illegal immigration to the US.
- 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.
- 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.
- Three middle-class teenagers out on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their "colonia".
- 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.
- Captain Orellana, a former police investigator now working on his own, has been tapped for the wackiest, most dangerous case of his long career. He's hired by the department of health to examine the strange occurrences in a remote village.
- People go through five stages after a breakup: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In "Ruptura", Ale and Juanpa will experience the same stages in reverse. A short ROM-COM about endings and beginnings.
- A protective older sister spends a trying day with her brother.
- A dissident priest lives in a humble manner, helping people from different social classes in exchange for a meal. His way of living seems to work perfectly until he meets two women that put his intentions in doubt.
- Susana, an orphan, wakes from a nightmare gasping for air, and struggles to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Unsure who to trust, she maneuvers through a maze of eerie events set up by an evil being, Sombrerón. Frightened, she dismisses the warning signs as she seeks answers that only bring her closer to the darkness slowly surrounding her.
- A boy struggles against his stifling family life during the 1954 Guatemala coup.
- 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.
- 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.
- After a long, devastating 36 year civil war in Guatemala, victims are being transformed into champions who willfully embrace their past to help repair the next generation. This is their story.
- In Guatemala, the systematic repression of indigenous people led to a bloody armed conflict from 1960 to 1996 that left behind more than 200,000 dead, the majority of whom were Mayas. In an environment of fear and threats, the photographer Miquel Dewever-Plana worked for years documenting the exhumation process and gathering testimonies of numerous victims that are now part of the book 'The truth beneath the ground. Guatemala, the silenced genocide'. Years later, he returned to the Mayan communities to deliver this book to those who had shared their stories.
- After the death of Silvia, Mother calls Emma by the name of her deceased daughter. Emma has become Silvia. All the rituals of beauty in order to be the perfect Silvia become harder and harder as time goes by, but Emma will keep trying to become what Mother expects...
- 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.
- An inter-generational tribute to feminist icons of experimental film, and to the complexities, quandaries, and doubt involved in art-making.
- A regular day for Bans and Uzu, little did they know a series of events would bring them face to face with an alternate reality and their chance to confront Dixon, a disturbed psychopath with blood on his hands and demons in his mind.
- "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.
- 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 young Spanish writer inherits a home in the Guatemalan rainforest, only to become wrapped up in a land war, touchy local politics ... and murder.
- Imagine having an actual conversation after a one-night stand instead of just leaving after sex. This is what happens to Damian and Mateo, who met at a party and ended up in bed together. Neither expected the relationship to go beyond that.