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COMPARSA (2025) written and directed by Doug Anderson and Vickie Curtis.
Well-received at the 2025 Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, this is a moving feature-length documentary that explores how a group of women from Peronia, in Guatemala are challenging the authorities over the woeful lack of…
Gabriela (2023) Oscar-qualifying short film by Guatemalan-American director Evelyn Lorena
Gabriela, a young Guatemalan undocumented immigrant struggles to fulfill her dreams of becoming a competitive swimmer for a local Country Club in North Carolina.
OUR MOTHERS (Nuestras Madres) - A Debut feature by César Díaz
Winner of the Camera D’Or in Cannes, Guatemalan filmmaker César Díaz’s multi award-winning film, OUR MOTHERS opens us to the horrors of the 36 year civil war in Guatemala between 1960 and 1996, through the experiences of Ernesto…
Transforming Urban Spaces: Guatemala City’s barrancos
“We dream of a green city, an inclusive city, full of squares, full of children. We dream of a fair, walkable, accessible, liveable city. We believe in a greener, happier, more human city.” Urban planners and community gardeners…
Guatemalan Fire
Gaby Moreno, this Guatemalan Latin Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, has left an indelible mark in the collaborations she has partaken in, making her a true inspiration for all Latinos, let alone the small central American…
Guatemala: Indigenous Women take on Canada’s Mining Industry
Elena Choc Quib, a unilingual Q’eqchi’ speaker from a remote village in rural Guatemala, never imagined travelling outside her country, let alone boarding a plane to Toronto. But everything changed when she and 10 other women…
Guatemala: a Rotten State
President Morales' anti-corruption pose is dropped as soon as his own family is in the frame
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