Movies: Juan Antonio Llanes

An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing ...

Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world....

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die....

A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to wrap up a movie presently in production. Given a very short time allotment, the writer immerses himself in the seamier side of a Mexican beach resort, but soon finds himself invo...

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chiché...

After a terrorist attack on Guatemala in the 1980's, a small child is left deaf and motherless. Now her father has to step up and take care of her by himself while the fear of inner armed conflict looms over the country....

An episodic film showing death, in various forms, in line with the mexican idiosyncrasy....

"Amidst grief and family estrangement, a teenager must break emotional barriers at his mother's funeral, triggering suffocation and guilt."...

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After years of suffering from a sleep disorder, Asunción turns to a specialist who will help her discover the causes of her insomnia....