She came home to bury ghosts. The state buried the truth first.
A Guatemalan woman, Ana Lucía Cuevas, returns home from exile to face the brutal history of Guatemala's armed conflict. In 1984, her brother Carlos was kidnapped by the state as one of thousands who were abducted and disappeared. Recounting the stories of brutal genocide, terror, state repression and violence, this film documents the memories of those victimised by the Guatemalan state.
Direction
Cuevas turns personal grief into national testimony.
Editing
Archive footage woven with present-day reckoning.
Director
Ana Lucía Cuevas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Guatemala's 36-year civil war killed 200,000+, mostly Indigenous Maya; state forces responsible for 93% of atrocities per UN truth commission.
Cuevas spent 20 years in exile before returning to make this; her brother Carlos's case remains unsolved, his body never found.
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