A Google search for Guatemalan submissions for the International Feature Oscar will yield just three titles, and two of them are directed by Jayro Bustamante, the queer 43-year-old director and ...

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Stories about La Llorona have not only terrified Latino children for decades around campfires and during sleepovers with cousins, the vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore is quite scary in horror movies ...

Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona is a multi-layered film that seemingly weaves silenced history, generational trauma, and folkloric horror into its narrative. As the film ventures into each of these ...

In Latin America, la llorona (the “weeping woman”) is a popular oral legend about a woman who drowned her children and then, repentant and cursed, searches for them at night through rivers, ...

The Oscar-shortlisted genocide allegory packaged as a horror movie has become a "national standard" in his home country, Bustamante tells IndieWire. A Google search for Guatemalan submissions for the ...