Guatemala Movies

A joyous Guatemalan film about the magic and charm of puppetry. This documentary follows the charismatic artists as they make their puppets and...

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...

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...

An undocumented immigrant recounts memories of his childhood home while telling the story of the handmade wallet tied to his journey across the...

New Yorker Javier Zamora recounts his migration story from El Salvador to the US and its impact on his life.

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

Mayan conceptual artist Benvenuto Chavajay prepares his most recent performance. His odyssey begins at his exhibition in Paris' Pompidou Centre,...

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...

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

This film is made so that people realize that evil doesn't solve things, it only makes them worse, and it can bring us to a place of torment.

Blue Abstraction 2012 is a single-channel video with sound of a performance by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. Shot in a continuous take that lasts...

Mike and Alanna drove a motorbike and sidecar from Alaska to Argentina and interviewed 120 couples about how to stay together for life. They also...

The spectral takes embodied form in Regina José Galindo’s ongoing performance series Aparición, which stages veiled figures in...

After the genocide in the eighties in Guatemala, a community survived as displaced. In a town between Mexico and Guatemala, they show the will to...

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

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...

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...