EVEN THE SUN HAS SPOTS

Pepe Moco is a mentally handicapped boy who wanders the streets promoting a presidential candidate that promises to take the national football team to the World Cup. Beto makes a living robbing and uses grafitti as a way to manifest his dissatisfaction with life. Soon they will become very close.

In his third feature, Julio Hernández Cordón is back to blurring the lines between fiction and reality while adopting a more experimental and playful approach. Here, the story of an odd friendship serves as an enjoyable way into a broader exploration of the political past and present of Guatemala.