Julio Hernández Cordón
2021
Marimbas from Hell
Julio Hernández Cordón
Roberto González Arévalo, Víctor Hugo Monterroso
Don Alfonso is a deliveryman. He also plays marimbas, the traditional Guatemalan instrument. He is used to play a folkloric musical show in one of the fancy hotel of Guatemala City. He faces the population's lack of interest for his instrument, considered like out of date and old fashioned. Black is pioneer of the Heavy Metal Guatemalan underground stage. He also is also a doctor in the public hospital but nobody wants to be treated by him because of his long hair and his tattoos. When Don Alfonso and Black meet each other and decide to combine their talents and create a brand new project called Marimbas from Hell, they could never have imagined all the reactions they would provoke among the population.
Marimbas from Hell
I Promise You Anarchy
Julio Hernández Cordón
Diego Calva, Eduardo Eliseo Martínez
Miguel and Johnny know each other since childhood. They are dedicated to skate and have fun. To earn easy money and continue skating, they sell their own blood to a clandestine contact in a hospital. The activity becomes business until a large transaction is not as they imagined.
I Promise You Anarchy
Polvo
Julio Hernández Cordón
Agustín Ortiz Pérez, Eduardo Spiegeler
Ignacio is shooting a documentary on the people who disappeared in 1982 during the armed conflict in an indigenous Guatemalan village. Amongst the families are Delfina and her son Juan. Delfina still hopes to find her husband, but Juan knows who was responsible for the disappearance of his father: someone who still lives in the same village.
Dust
Minotauro
Nicolás Pereda
Gabino Rodríguez, Luisa Pardo
Minotaur takes place in a home of books, of readers, of artists. It’s also a home of soft light, of eternal afternoons, of sleepiness, of dreams. The home is impermeable to the world. Mexico is on fire, but the characters of Minotaur sleep soundly.
Minotaur
Hasta el sol tiene manchas
Julio Hernández Cordón
José Miguel Orozco, Alberto Rodríguez
Pepe Moco, a mentally handicapped boy, who makes an advert for one of the presidential candidates who promises to organise the first World Cup in Guatemala. Beto is a kid who scales a town drawn in chalk, venting his spleen on its walls, threatening passersby with balls. The two of them soon become very close evoking the past and present of a country that does harm.
Even the Sun Has Spots
Atrás hay relámpagos
Julio Hernández Cordón
Álvaro Marenco, Adriana Alvarez
Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car in grandma’s garden and find something they’d rather immediately forget.
Lightning Falls Behind
