Ixcanul — stream Jayro Bustamante's film online

Winner of the Silver Bear (Alfred Bauer Prize) at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival and the most awarded Guatemalan film in history, with over 60 international honors.

Synopsis

María is a 17-year-old Indigenous woman living with her family on a coffee plantation on the slopes of the Ixcanul volcano in Guatemala. Promised in marriage against her will to the plantation foreman, María tries to escape her fate through her childhood sweetheart. When she becomes pregnant and he disappears, María faces the consequences alone, becoming a victim of one of Guatemala's most brutal and silenced practices: child trafficking.

Details

Director and writer

Jayro Bustamante

Year

2015

Genre

Drama

Original language

Spanish and Kaqchikel Maya

Subtitles available

English, French

Country

Guatemala

Starring

María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Marvin Coroy, Justo Lorenzo

Why watch Ixcanul

Ixcanul is essential viewing for anyone searching for arthouse films and world cinema beyond the commercial circuit — a debut feature that put Guatemala on the map of international cinema and remains a reference point for Latin American independent cinema a decade later.

Awards

• Silver Bear (Alfred Bauer Prize) — Berlin Film Festival 2015
• Best First Fiction Feature — Platino Awards 2016
• Best Film — Guadalajara and Cartagena Film Festivals