A first $10,000 award is granted to the Guatemalan filmmaker Anais Taracena for her project El silencio del topo (The Silence of the Mole)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In the 1970s, “El Topo” (The Mole), infiltrates the most repressive parts of Guatemala’s military dictatorship. Unable to reveal his true clandestine work, and accused of treason by his colleagues, he has access to information about the political violence programmed and perpetrated by the military government.

This film’s quest plunges us into the memory of a country that has been forced to forget. The Silence of the Mole explores moments when revelations of this obscured past open cracks in walls of silence, in a country whose history remains hidden and marginalized even today.