Pelo Lindo / Pelo Lindo
Guatemala 2025 24"
Josue García Prado
En 1985, durante el conflicto armado interno en Guatemala, Joaquín Rodas fue desaparecido por el Estado. Casi 40 años después, su madre, Josefa Elizabeth Andrade, continúa esperándolo. En su cumpleaños 90, reflexiona sobre la ausencia y la capilla que construyó en su honor. Por medio de un diálogo entre Josefa y el director, la película aborda una historia personal marcada por la memoria y el paso del tiempo.
In 1985, during the violence of Guatemala’s Internal Armed Conflict, Joaquín Rodas Andrade was abducted and forcibly disappeared by the State. Nearly forty years later, his mother, Josefa Elizabeth Andrade, continues waiting for him.
At 90 years old, Josefa, the director’s aunt, reflects on the absence of her son and on the chapel she built in his honor, convinced that he would one day return, which she named the Chapel of the Christ of the Kidnapping.
Josue García Prado
Josué García Prado es un cineasta guatemalteco originario de Quetzaltenango. Ha dirigido varios cortometrajes documentales que se han proyectado y premiado en festivales internacionales de cine, entre ellos Sheffield Docfest, DocNyc, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, Leiden Shorts, DocsMX, SF IndieFest, Riga International Film Festival (Riga IFF) y el Ícaro International Film Festival.
Is a Guatemalan filmmaker from Quetzaltenango, he has directed several documentary shorts that have screened and received awards at international film festivals including Sheffield Docfest, DocNyc, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, Leiden Shorts, DocsMX, SF IndieFest, Riga International Film Festival (Riga IFF), and the Ícaro International Film Festival