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Radio Qman Txun – Chronicle of a mayan village
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Radio Qman Txun – Chronicle of a mayan village

61 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Todos Santos Cuchumatán, a Mam-Mayan town in the Guatemalan highlands, opens the film with its Day of the Dead ritual: men on horseback racing and dancing through the cemetery to honor the dead. Directors Max Lopez and Miguel Angel Arnaiz then settle into the daily lives of three residents, Fortunato, Cristalina, and Rosendo, who carry the weight of a history of abuse and marginalization at the hands of Guatemalan authorities. Rather than dwelling on that history as defeat, the camera follows how each of them pushes back against it: through community radio broadcasts on the station that gives the film its title, through grassroots organizing, and through everyday political engagement. The film treats its subjects as specific people with families and concerns rather than symbols of an indigenous population in the abstract, and it spends real time on the traditional clothing, language, and rituals that structure the town's calendar. The landscape and color of the highlands are on constant display, but the center of the film stays on three individuals deciding, in small daily acts, not to be silenced.