Dir: Cesar Diaz | Cast: Berenice Bejo, Fermin Martinez, Leonardo Ortisgris, Julieta Egurrola, Matheo Labbe | Drama 89’
Another fascinating slice of history from Latin America in the Seventies that unfolds in Guatemala, 1976. A terrified woman runs along the street with a baby boy. She is Maria, a Guatemalan rebel activist fighting against the corrupt military dictatorship. Now desperate to save her life amid death threats she must flee to Mexico, leaving her son behind.
Ten years later, when he comes to live with her, she is forced to choose between her duties as a mother and continuing her revolutionary activism. Berenice Bejo gives her all in this passionate portrait of divided loyalties from La fremis-trained director Cesar Diaz of Amores Perros and Our Mothers fame. @MeredithTaylor
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