Event

Ten minutes with Rigoberta & Strangers to Peace

US Premiere
In Competition
Short Documentary
Rated: PG:13
Country: Guatemala, Mexico
Director: Roberto Salvador Rodriguez
Genre: Testimonial
Year: 2022
Running Time: 13 min.
Spanish w/ English subtitles
Stars: Fernando Villavicencio, Paúl Jarrín Mosquera
Synopsis: Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum grants 10 minutes of her time to director Roberto Salvador, narrating in front of the camera a message for future generations through her story.

NW Coast Premiere
In Competition
Feature Documentary
Rated: PG:13
Country: Colombia
Director: Laura Bibibana Angel Rengifo, Noah David DeBonis
Genre: Human Right, Social Issue, War
Year: 2022
Running Time: 88 min.
Spanish w/ English subtitles
Synopsis: Three former child soldiers face retribution, anxiety, and danger as they attempt to rebuild their lives after leaving the FARC guerrilla army and the bloody Colombian conflict. Strangers to Peace intimately captures the personal stories of Dayana, the market vendor navigating her new identity as a trans woman; Ricardo, the young father secretly clinging to his communist ideology; and Alexandra, the indigenous child soldier, who was forced to leave her family behind in the Amazon. Their stories are told through the lens of filmmaker Laura Angel, who herself was a victim of FARC violence.