Winner of the Camera d'Or for Best First Film at the Cannes Film Festival. Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victim statements come one after another. Ernesto is a young anthropologist working for the Forensic Foundation; his job is to identify the missing. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a guerrillero who went missing during the war. Against his mother’s wishes, he flings himself body and soul into the case, looking for truth and resilience.
- Year2019
- Runtime78 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountryGuatemala
- DirectorCésar Díaz
Winner of the Camera d'Or for Best First Film at the Cannes Film Festival. Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victim statements come one after another. Ernesto is a young anthropologist working for the Forensic Foundation; his job is to identify the missing. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a guerrillero who went missing during the war. Against his mother’s wishes, he flings himself body and soul into the case, looking for truth and resilience.
- Year2019
- Runtime78 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountryGuatemala
- DirectorCésar Díaz