El llanto de Yubi

A Guatemalan activist battles a corrupt dictatorship in 1976 and flees to Mexico, leaving her son. Ten years later he joins her, forcing a choice between motherhood and her cause

Death arrives in a small town in the south of Guatemala City, with the mission of taking three people with her: a boy lost in a hill, a young woman adrift, and an old writer who always dreamed of being a filmmaker. An essay that presents three short stories about Death and how living in this world makes her more human.

On her 90th birthday, Josefa Elizabeth Andrade reflects on the chapel she built for her son, Joaquín Rodas Andrade, forcibly disappeared during Guatemala’s armed conflict nearly forty years ago.

Ale dances to heal but Checha has not yet found the means to get better. In an attempt to help him and move on Ale gets accidentally locked up with Checha on a terrace. Without much to say, dance will be their only language.

A portrait of Guatemala City and municipalities adjacent to the Pan-American Highway from the eyes of the stray dogs living there.