Ixcanul

Jayro Bustamante : 2014
Ixcanul Volcano

María, a 17-year-old Mayan Kaqchikel girl, lives with her parents in a coffee plantation on the side of an active volcano in Guatemala. She is awaited by an arranged marriage she doesn't want but can't escape. Despite being an Indian woman, María will try to change her fate. However, a complication with her pregnancy forces her to set out and look for a hospital: the modern world she had always dreamt of will save her life, but at too high a price. Jayro Bustamante's feature debut received an honourable mention from the competition jury when it was presented in the Films in Progress section at San Sebastián International Film Festival 2014. His film was winner of the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize when it premiered in competition at Berlin International Film Festival 2015.