Series Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Student Film
Director Carlos Flores
Country/Production UK
Release 1997
Length 45 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location Guatemala / America
Ethnic Group Maya-Q’eqchi
Collection GCVA, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester
University School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester
Order No RAI-200.3019
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During the 1980s the Guatemalan army launched ruthless counter-insurgency campaigns against indigenous communities, killing or displacing thousands. This film documents the struggle of a group of Maya-Q’eqchi’ villages to reconstruct their communities and come to terms with their violent past.
