OUR MOTHERS / NUESTRAS MADRES
A film by César Díaz
(Belgium/Guatemala, 2019, 78 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
The winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival, Our Mothers will virtually premiere at the Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall and the Laemmle Playhouse in Los Angeles, The Tower Theatre in Miami and other theaters to be announced, on Friday, May 1.
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.
“As witnesses of the genocide, the Mayan women of Guatemala are the bridge between past and present, repositories of memory and conduits for justice…” –Variety
“Offers an example of remembrance and resilience. His film erupts like a shout in the darkness that surrounds this often overlooked massacre that cost mostly Indian lives, and paints the heartbreaking portrait of a mother and her son.” – Cineuropa
Opens Friday, May 1
For tickets and more information click here
The Sag Harbor Cinema, Sag Harbor, NY
Lumiere at the Music Hall, Beverly Hills, CA
Laemmle Playhouse, Pasadena, CA
Tower Theatre, Miami, Florida
Varsity Theater, Davis CA
North Park Theater, Buffalo, NY
CineSpeak, Philadelphia, PA
The Film Lab, Hamtramck, MI
The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana, CA
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