Released:
2010-01-01

Overview:
LENCHO, a 30-year-old artist and graffiti writer, is back in Guatemala after living a decade in New York. Eager to bring artistic expression to his home country silenced by over 30 years of terror, Lencho assembles a collective of artists to produce public art projects of social impact. As its first activity, the group organizes an art festival in Rabinal, a small, indigenous village in the Guatemalan highlands. The group's work comes of interest to the director of a secret "social cleansing" program of the national police designed to quash dissension and organizing among the youth. As Lencho labors to coordinate the music, poetry and muralism components of the festival, he finds himself increasingly haunted by memories of the death of his father, a journalist during the civil war. "El Regreso de Lencho" portrays one man's journey to self-knowledge and action: can Guatemala do the same?

Director:
Mario Rosales

Runtime:
1h 40min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Mario Lanz
  as
  Lorenzo 'Lencho' Aguilar
• 
  Miriam Arenas
  as
  Magali Cruz
• 
  Tatiana Palomo
  as
  Camila Ibarguen
• 
  Emanuel Loarca
  as
  Ernesto 'Neco' Pacheco
• 
  Manuel Chitay Cos
  as
  Marin Pineda