Mother Tongue (2015)

"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into Maya-Ixil—5.5% of whom were killed during the armed conflict in the 1980s. Told from the perspective of Matilde Terraza, an emerging Ixil leader and the translation project’s coordinator, "Mother Tongue" illuminates the Ixil community’s ongoing work to preserve collective memory.

Released Nov. 1, 2015 19 min None+

Genres: Biography, Documentary, Short

Keywords: tmdb.indigenous, tmdb.language, tmdb.guatemala, tmdb.woman-director, tmdb.accessibility, mdblist.imdb-short, mdblist.one-actor + 2 more, imdb.f-rated, tmdb.maya

Watch Providers: Kanopy

Languages: English, Spanish