LA LLORONA

By Jayro BUSTAMANTE

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Horror - Completed 2019

Having made his name as a director who crafts works of great sensitivity and visual richness, Silver-Bear winning-director Jayro Bustamante is back with LA LLORONA, a tale of horror and fantasy, ripe with suspense, and an urgent metaphor of Guatemalan recent history and its unhealed political wounds

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2019
Contemporary World Cinema
American Film Market (AFM) 2019
Venice-days 2019
Official Selection
San Sebastian 2019
Horizontes Latinos
Sundance Film Festival 2020
Spotlight
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Horror, Drama
    • Countries
    • GUATEMALA, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, KAQCHIKEL
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jayro BUSTAMANTE
    • Writer(s)
    • Jayro BUSTAMANTE
    • Producer(s)
    • Jayro BUSTAMANTE (LA CASA DE PRODUCCIÓN), Gustavo MATHEU (LA CASA DE PRODUCCIÓN)
    • Synopsis
    • With the words “If you cry, I’ll kill you” ringing in their ears, Alma and her sons are murdered in Guatemala’s armed confliict.
      Thirty years later, a criminal case is brought against Enrique, a retired general who oversaw the genocide. But he’s acquitted through a mistrial and the spirit of La Llorona is unleashed to wander the world like a lost soul amongst the living.
      At night, Enrique starts to hear her wailing. His wife and daughter believe he’s having bouts of Alzheimer’s-related dementia. Little could they suspect that their new housekeeper, Alma, is there to mete out the vengeance the trial did not.