Mother Tongue

Mother Tongue

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 2015

Runtime

0h 19m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Mother Tongue

Director

Pamela Yates

Description

"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, "Mother Tongue" illuminates the Ixil community’s ongoing work to preserve collective memory.