Overview

Continuing her work documenting post-genocide trials and conflict resolution in Guatemala, director Pamela Yates chronicles former President Rios Montt’s most recent trial for genocide and crimes against humanity in Guatemala itself (an earlier court case occurred in Spain) and combines it with the subsequent citizen uprising that toppled then-sitting president Otto Perez Molina. The film is far from a sober courtroom drama, however, with a focus on the effectiveness of the indigenous Maya when they unite and protest en masse against the government.