Guatemala Movies

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.

René, a bus driver in Guatemala faces gang extortion while struggling to protect his son. Desperation leads him to take extreme measures to...

Maria, an indigenous woman, seeks justice for her sister Rosa after she is raped.

During the 1980s the Guatemalan army launched ruthless counter-insurgency campaigns against indigenous communities, killing or displacing thousands....

A documentary on Guatemalan sex workers who formed a soccer team in 2004 and joined their local five-a-side league. The league's organizer expelled...

Through analogies, picture interventions, and experimental staging, a group of women create a collective testimony about the different kinds of...

The Perechú family is afraid that the ancestral costume of their ancestors will disappear, but they see soccer as an opportunity to keep their...

ADAM IS A CLASSICAL MUSIC STUDENT WHO, AFTER LIVING HIS ENTIRE LIFE UNDER THE SHADOW OF HIS FATHER, IS ABOUT TO TAKE HIS FATHER'S TITLE OF THE...

About leaving a home to inhabit another one.

Two volcanologists visit indigenous communities to warn and evacuate them from the fire mountain range where a new volcano is forming. It’s at...

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...

It arises from the nostalgia for a place that witnessed the growth of two generations, but is now abandoned, awaiting its prompt demolition.

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...

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