Granito

Granito is an engrossing new documentary by American filmmaker Pamela Yates, which maps the history of genocide in Guatemala. This film follows the convoluted quest for justice in the style of a political thriller. At the same time, it is also comprises the director's own personal testimony. The story begins in 1982, when Yates's film When the Mountains Tremble gave rise to a wave of international interest in the tragic fate of Mayan Indians massacred by the Guatemalan government. Yates was the only foreign filmmaker who succeeded in shooting footage that revealed atrocities committed by the Guatemalan army. A quarter of a century later, these pictures are used as part of the evidence against a Guatemalan army general in a trial at the International Criminal Court. Once again the director meets up with former members of the resistance and human rights campaigners. Together with them, she continues to search for the truth. (One World)