Claudio Zulian

A look at Guatemala’s dark days of civil war and dictatorship, which led to the death and disappearance of over 200,000 people between 1960-1996.

Eight people from very different backgrounds cross paths in Barcelona, Spain. Lawyers, musicians, translators, security guards, call center agents. They are all immigrants. Some have just arrived, others arrived years ago, leaving behind a war, a dictatorship or some sort of social or cultural discrimination. They all chose exile over submission.

During the years of the civil war in Guatemala (1960-1996) a group of people were kidnapped and disappeared by the Guatemalan army. Thanks to the report of the relatives of those people, in 2012 the Inter-American Court for Human Rights condemned the State of Guatemala for these forced disappearances. Although it is only a matter of 26 cases among 45.000 missing people, this is the first time the State has been directly accused of these crimes.

Constel·lació Portabella traces the exciting life of the great Catalan film director and artist Pere Portabella , which traverses the cultural and political history of the country and the last seventy years, letting us be carried away by the passion, the intellect intelligence and curiosity.