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When a group of Mayan Indians decides to organize a labor union to improve conditions in their village, their community is violently destroyed by the Guatemalan army. Teenage siblings, Rosa (Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez) and Enrique (David Villalpando)…

This course examines film by Spanish and Latin American directors. Students study films as an independent genre using specific structural forms as the means of analysis (close-up, soundtrack, frame, etc.). Students will formulate interpretations that…

In this course, we will explore cinema from and about Latin America to expand our understanding of this culturally diverse region comprised of more than twenty countries and territories. We will examine topics such as gender, humor, history,…

By tracing a Latin American centric social, geo-political, cultural, historical, cinematic map, we will be looking at the praxis of key visionary filmmakers and cinematic movements. We will examine how these filmmakers, their films, their texts, and…

In director Jayro Bustamante’s feature debut, Ixcanul (2015), a Kaqchiquel-speaking family negotiates their survival as farmers on a landowner’s plot in Guatemala. Looming in the distance is the Pacaya volcano from which the film takes its name.…

Juan crosses the slums of his city in Guatemala to a dump, where he picks up his friend, the scavenger Samuel; meanwhile, Sara cuts her hair and bandages her breasts in order to pass for a boy - a step which, as will be seen some time later, is…

This interdisciplinary course seeks to review and analyze the complexity of contemporary society through the study of Latin American and Spanish film production. We will explore topics that relates to issues of ethnicity, class representation,…

Los testimonios de Rigoberta Menchú, ganadora del Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1992, amplían el panorama sobre los abusos de las fuerzas de seguridad guatemaltecas contra su pueblo y otras comunidades indígenas en el despojo de sus tierras. El…

The third film in a trilogy about Guatemala, this installment explores the sweeping historical significance of the war crimes trial of General Ríos Montt and the toppling of corrupt president Otto Pérez Molina. Sundance Film Festival veteran Pamela…

The country is riveted on the trial of the military officers who started the civil war. The victims’ testimonials keep pouring in. Ernesto, a young anthropologist at the Forensic Foundation, identifies people who have gone missing. One day, through…

Un niño Maya Kaqchikel va por primera vez al colegio enfrentando al sistema educacional de Guatemala. Para él, el despertar a un nuevo mundo, lejos de su comunidad y saberes ancestrales, donde normas y reglas desconocidas están a punto de cambiar de…

In our Hispanic film course we examine diverse cinemas made in the region and how Latin American filmmakers represent, reject, reconstruct, maintain or challenge their realities. We look at how films are made, how they are funded, and how films…

In this course, we will explore cinema from and about Latin America to expand our understanding of this culturally diverse region comprised of more than twenty countries and territories. We will examine topics such as gender, humor, history,…

La intención del curso es hacer un recorrido por la historia de América Latina y por su producción cinematográfica, teniendo como eje rector las diversas maneras en que se ha expresado la idea de revolución en el cine latinoamericano, tanto en…

Guatemala, años 80. Los peores días de la guerra civil. Andrés tiene 9 años. Vive con Pedro González, uno de los hombres que mataron a todas las mujeres y niños de su aldea. Andrés ha sobrevivido, pero tiene miedo. La esposa de Pedro, María, también…

This course serves as an introduction to film analysis by studying Latin American cinema, with a focus on Afro-descendant and indigenous communities. We will analyze the representation of indigenous people in contemporary Latin American cinema,…

Ixcamuné es una niña de 12 años, que a pesar de su corta edad posee fascinacion por la vida y la lectura. Vive en una familia de escasos recursos, pero tiene la posibilidad de ir a la escuela, aunque su padre se reniega a eso. Su vida cambia…

José lives with his mother in Guatemala City, where, dominated by conservative Catholic and Evangelical Christian religion, living one’s life as an openly gay man is hard for José to imagine. His mother has never had a husband and is determined to…

Alma, a Maya Kaqchikel woman, is victimized by military commander Enrique during the war in Guatemala. Thirty years later, he is tried and condemned for crimes against humanity, but then absolved by a higher court. Alma comes back to the world of the…