DUST

When producing a documentary about the armed conflict in an indigenous village in Guatemala, Ignacio and Alejandra meet Juan, a depressed man who lived through the kidnapping of his father. Having lost all hope in finding him, he lives with an insatiable need of vengeance.

Unraveling Guatemala’s open wounds from its civil war, Dust shows Julio Hernández Cordón at his finest. A fiction about the making of a documentary—and inspired by the director’s own work with local Indigenous women—it plays with genre to reflect on the artist’s role in the face of tragedy.