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LA LLORONA

By Jayro BUSTAMANTE

ARP SÉLECTION - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video

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

Venice-days 2019

Official Selection

San Sebastian 2019

Horizontes Latinos

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Horror, Drama
- Countries
- GUATEMALA, FRANCE
- Languages
- SPANISH, KAQCHIKEL
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Jayro BUSTAMANTE
- Writer(s)
- Jayro BUSTAMANTE
- Cast
- María Mercedes COROY
- 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.

LA LLORONA

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