Our Mothers

Guatemala, 2018. The country is following a trial. Those on trial are the officers who began the civil war. Testimony from the victims keeps coming in. Ernesto is a young anthropologist. He works at the Forensic Foundation. His job is to identify people who have gone missing. One day what an old woman tells him catches his attention. He thinks there is a lead about his father in it. His father was a guerrillero who disappeared during the war. The director César Díaz built the story from his own family. His father too disappeared under the junta. This Belgian, French and Guatemalan coproduction of 2019 runs seventy eight minutes.