Asphyxia

9.5 10
2018
80min

Spanish

English

Country: Guatemala

Original Title: La asfixia

A daughter confronts silence, memory, and a nation’s buried past to reclaim the truth about her father’s disappearance.

Spanish
English
Country: Guatemala
Original Title: La asfixia

AWARDS: Jury Prize. Guadalajara Film Festival/ FIPRESCI Prize. International Film Festival of Panama

OFFICIAL SELECTION: BAFICI/ Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones/ Habana Film Festival/

Asphyxia - Unraveling memory’s blurred edges to find the truth

In this insightful documentary, Guatemalan filmmaker Ana Bustamante embarks on a deeply personal yet universal journey into the void left by her father’s forced disappearance in 1982.

Weaving together testimonies, archival records, and intimate reflections, she reconstructs the narrative of an entire massacred generation. As she battles a system designed to forget, Ana exposes the suffocating legacy of silence that lingers in post-war Guatemala. In a place where memory reinvents and erases itself, the film is both an act of resistance and a cry for justice.