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1) Colibri
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Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.
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When A Beauty That Hurts first appeared in 1995, Guatemala was one of the world's most flagrant violators of human rights. An accord brokered by the United Nations brought a measure of peace after three decades of armed conflict, but the country's troubles are far from over. George Lovell revisits Guatemala to grapple once again with the terror inflicted on its Maya peoples by a military-dominated state.
3) Tree Girl
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When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.
6) Colibrí
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Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.
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"A dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Mayans living on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. A mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, this gorgeously photographed film is an immersive journey into its characters' customs and beliefs, chronicling with unblinking realism disappearing traditions and a disappearing people"--Container.
13) El vaso de miel
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A collection of traditional Guatemalan stories, tales and legends.
17) Popol vuh
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El Popol Vuh, libro sagrado de los mayas k'iche', da cuenta del universo maya, de la pluralidad de sus dioses, de la diversidad del mundo natural y del origende la humanidad. Es un relato a la vez mítico e histórico,actual y ancestral. Por su honda reflexión sobre la existencia, supera la dimensión cultural maya y se presenta como una obra universal. El refinamiento poéticoy la riqueza simƯbólica hacen del Popol Vuh obra cumbre de laliteratura...