Mother Tongue
2015, English. Directed by Pamela Yates.
"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.
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- 0h 19m
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- English
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- 1 November 2015
- Written by
- Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, Paco de Onís
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Who directed Mother Tongue?
Mother Tongue (2015) was directed by Pamela Yates and stars Matilde Terraza Gallego.