Director Jayro Bustamante’s dark drama “La Llorona,” the Guatemalan entry in this year’s Oscar race, tells the story of a Guatemalan dictator who helped engineer a genocide of native Mayans but ...

January 4, 2021 marks the 300th straight day I haven’t stepped inside a movie theater. As a professional film critic for nearly 20 years, the cinema has always been a second home to me. Early in my ...

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 ...

Where lies the horror? This is the question followers of the genre might ask as they view "La Llorona," the latest work of Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante. After all, the legend of La Llorona, ...

Jayro Bustamente’s politically charged horror film La Llorona, which won the Venice Days sidebar at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is Guatemala’s selection to the 2021 International Oscar race.

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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 ...

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 ...

The Golden Globes’ racist disqualification of filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung’s American-made Minari from its Best Picture categories will not be the last debacle from the embarrassing awards body—one that ...

A version of this story about “La Llorona” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Director Jayro Bustamante’s dark drama “La Llorona,” the Guatemalan entry in ...