22 minutes that'll wreck your idea of 'dangerous jobs' forever.
Widows is a documentary about the wives of pilots, who have been killed while working on the streets of Guatemala City. Being a van or taxi driver in the Central American country is considered one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
Direction
Chapetón lets silence do the screaming.
Writing
No narration — just lives, unvarnished.
Director
Rodrigo García Chapetón
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Guatemala's 'ruleta' drivers face extortion gangs; this film makes their widows the protagonists history forgot.
The title's Spanish wordplay — 'viudas' and 'avitransp' — connects personal loss to an entire broken transit system.
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