Cinemotion Rising Art: (Flowers of Guatemala) The people of Guate

Balance

An indigenous woman from one of the surrounding villages is selling her own grown avocados in Antigua to the restaurants. The basket she is balancing on her head weighs so much that I couldn`t carry it without hurting my neck.

Nueva Juventud

A young girl at the meeting of the FRG Faction, a party with a black history. The leader, Rios Montt, was the general during the so called scorched earth politics in the early eighties in the civil war. Under his rulership tens of thousands of innocent indigenous people got killed by brutalaties of the army.

The fact that Rios Montt is being held responsible for acts of genocide didn`t stop him to run for president however in the elections of 2003. He didn`t win.

Crown of absorbtion

The mayan traditions and indigenous culture is slowly being absorbed by, and replaced with, the western vision of development. All over the country big American cooperations as Walmart or Mc Donalds are arising in rapid tempo.

Flowers

Three sisters posing in front of their house in the village of Huacut, Peten, Guatemala, 2003

Passing timeless

An old local of Antigua is passing the morning relaxing on a bench of `La Plaza Central`.

Intensidad

Soñando

This girl is dreaming away as she is softly held by her mother during a women meeting in the village centre.

Hasta La Victoria

Don Fabian is working on the land. Though many things were promised to them after the peace agreements were signed, most of the farmers in Guatemala still live in deep poverty. They try to hold on to the vision of Che Guevara as they hope for more justice in the country.