A Mayan trilogy : life, death & migration : three films

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Three documentaries on the social conditions of the Guatemalan Indians in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala and the United States. The trilogy starts with Todos Santos Cuchumatán which provides an...

Three documentaries on the social conditions of the Guatemalan Indians in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala and the United States. The trilogy starts with Todos Santos Cuchumatán which provides an intimate look at everyday life in a village in Guatemala's highlands, before the civil war of the mid 1980's. Seven years later in Todos Santos: the survivors, the filmmaker returns to the once quiet village to record the legacy of a bloody civil war and the wounds that remain unhealed after the gunfire has stopped. In Mayan voices, American lives, the filmmaker compares the experiences of the Mayan immigrants who arrived in the United States during the civil war to the experiences of the recently arrived immigrants.

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