Distancia / Distance Film Screening

Sergio Ramirez' first full-length film depicts the true story of Tomas Choc, an elderly man in a small town in Guatemala who is searching for his missing daughter, Lucia. Kidnapped as a young girl by the military during the civil war twenty years earlier, he hopes she is still alive. Every day he visits a site with unmarked graves that some young forensic archaeologists are digging in an attempt to identify more victims of Guatemala’s terrible civil war. Word comes to Choc one day that his daughter may still be alive in the town of Nebaj and Choc embarks on a 100-mile journey through the mountains and Mayan villages of Guatemala.

Distance won Best Picture and Best Direction at the Havana Film Festival of New York City and has won awards at the Miami International Film Festival and the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, Cuba.

Distancia / Distance
Dir. Sergio Ramirez, 2010, 1hr15m.

Programmed as part of a series of events around Manuel Chavajay and Rebecca Wilcox's joint show, This Might Be a Place for Hummingbirds.