directed by: Jayro Bustamante, year: 2019
actors: María Mercedes Coroy, Margarita Kenegé, Sabrina De La Hoz, Julio Díaz

La Llorona (2019) is a political horror drama from Guatemala that uses the legend of the weeping woman to explore memory, guilt, and the aftermath of violence. As a retired general is haunted by dreams and accusations of war crimes, his family remains within their ancestral home. A ritual vigil, the figure of La Llorona materializes in visions, forcing a confrontation with genocide against the Ixil people and the moral cost of forgetting.

Social Struggle, Drama, Horror, Political Allegory, Guatemalan Cinema, Indigenous Folklore