Filmmakers who are worth a look

• “Nuestras madres”, on VOD

We are in Guatemala in 2018. Nicolasa (Aurelia Caal), an elderly Indian woman begs Ernesto (Armando Espitia), a young anthropologist of the Forensic Foundation to "dig up", then identify her husband, one of the 200,000 victims of the dictatorship. The trials of the soldiers at the origin of the civil war (from 1978 to 1984) are still taking place today despite the fear of families to testify. Ernesto's investigation leads him to question his personal history, to question his own sire (Emma Dib) who did not tell him everything about his origins.

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Guatemalan director César Diaz, 42, drew inspiration from what he went through to film these grieving mothers up close, the first time for his study work at Fémis. He left his native country at the age of 9 to join his own in Mexico, his father being one of the 40,000 "political disappeared" in Guatemala. Concerned with truth and justice, César Diaz is close to the documentary, notes the facts and avoids

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