Guatemala Movies

About leaving a home to inhabit another one.

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

Expelled from football after a series of match-fixing allegations, former Guatemalan player Gustavo Cabrera grapples with the devastating impact on...

Meet Mario and Alfredo, Guatemala's last train drivers.

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...

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

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...

From night to dawn, Ramírez-Figueroa holds a shrouded block of ice until it melts to create a ‘blanket that could weep.’ This...

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...

The past of Pedro, a famous photographer, haunts him for several months, but everything changes when Javier, his brother, shows him what he...

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

Monica Chub, a trans Mayan Q'eqchi' woman shares her personal journey of self-discovery with Alex PV, a Maya Mam documentary filmmaker who travels...

Aurora has been running Bar Asturias for more than four decades. As the neighborhood changes and longtime customers pass away, Aurora keeps alive the...

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...

An urban middle-class woman accidentally discovers ancestral ways of understanding reality and life in a Guatemala that reveals magic and wonder.