A young forensic scientist identifies the countless dead of the civil war. When an indigenous woman searches for her husband, the scientist recognizes the dead man in the photo. During the 36-year civil war, 200,000 people disappeared, most of them Mayan. Decades later, many bodies in mass graves remain unidentified. When the elderly Mayan lady Nicolasa shows forensic scientist Ernesto a photo of her deceased husband, he believes he recognizes his father, who has been missing for years. At the same time, Ernesto's mother is scheduled to testify in court against her husband's murderers. "OUR MOTHERS is about these truths of trauma and grief, but also about the struggle to turn these truths into justice." (Mark Reviews Movies)
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Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war.
A young forensic scientist identifies the countless dead of the civil war. When an indigenous woman searches for her husband, the scientist recognizes the dead man in the photo.
During the 36-year civil war, 200,000 people disappeared, most of them Mayan. Decades later, many bodies in mass graves remain unidentified.
When the elderly Mayan lady Nicolasa shows forensic scientist Ernesto a photo of her deceased husband, he believes he recognizes his father, who has been missing for years. At the same time, Ernesto's mother is scheduled to testify in court against her husband's murderers.
"OUR MOTHERS is about these truths of trauma and grief, but also about the struggle to turn these truths into justice." (Mark Reviews Movies)
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Festival de Cannes
San Sebastián International Film Festival
Cannes - La Semaine de la Critique
FIFF Namur
Film Fest Oostende
MOOOV
Göteborg Film Festival
Director
César Díaz
Cast
Armando Espitia
Cast
Emma Dib
Cast
Aurelia Caal
Cast
Julio Serrano Echeverría
Cast
Victor Moreira