Official submission of Guatemala for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021.
First Guatemalan film to ever be nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
La Llorona de los Cafetales, a seven and a half minutes-long video by Jayro Bustamante, starring María Mercedes Coroy and featuring Gaby Moreno's version of the traditional song La Llorona, was released in February 2020 as the film's official trailer.
For people unfamiliar with the myth of La Llorona, it is a common Amerindian myth in Latin America that "the weeping woman" or "the wailer" cries for her dead children near water. Typically, it's associated with colonialism, that La Llorona was a native woman who bore a Spaniard Conquistador's children, and drowned them when he abandoned them.
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