Mother Tongue

Name: Mother Tongue
Released: 2015-11-01
Duration: 19 min
Cast: Matilde Terraza Gallego

20150h 19mmovie

"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into Maya-Ixil—5.5% of whom were killed during the armed conflict in the 1980s. Told from the perspective of Matilde Terraza, an emerging Ixil leader and the translation project’s coordinator, "...