![Words from the Daughters of the Mayab](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/palabras-hijas-mayab-1024x576-1.png)
![](https://www.miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/playButton.png)
Panzós Memory for the Land – Massacre of 1978
May 29, 1978, when the Guatemalan army massacred a group of Maya Q’eqchi’ peasants in Panzós, Alta Verapaz, who were protesting the dispossession of their land.
20 min | Rights | 2019
Synopsis
An eye-witness documentary of what happened on May 29, 1978, when the Guatemalan army massacred a group of Maya Q’eqchi’ peasants in Panzós, Alta Verapaz, who were protesting the dispossession of their land by transnational companies and local landowners.
Artistic and technic data
Year:
2019
Duration:
20 min
Direction:
Arturo Albizures Pedroza
Production:
Asociación COMUNICARTE
Awards:
Premi del Públic IndiFest 2021
Indigenous peoples:
Maya Q’eqchi’
Geographic area:
Guatemala
Language:
Maya Q’eqchi‘
Subtitles:
Spanish, English
Subject:
Rights
Genre(s):
Documentary
Related films
![Words from the Daughters of the Mayab](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/palabras-hijas-mayab-1024x576-1.png)
![Viejo Velasco: The Footprint of Agrarian Injustice](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ViejoVelasco_carrusel.jpg)
![Unexpected Visit](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/carrousel-4.jpg)
![To the Memory of Berta Cáceres](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CARROUSEL_A-LA-MEMORIA-DE-BERTA-CACERES.png)
![The Struggle Continues, Truth and Justice for Mártires López](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Carrousel-2.png)
![The River of Blood and the Two Banks](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Mida-carrousel-1.png)
![The Path Towards Enforcing the Right to Consultation](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/carrousel-el-caminar.jpg)
![The Face of Indigenous History](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Rostro_carrusel.jpg)
![SDN #5 – Manuela Xocol “Ita”/ Community Communicator](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Capsula-5_-Ita-Xicol_Seres-de-Niebla.png)
![SDN #4 – Gilberta Jiménez / Xinca Woman, Activist and Land Defender](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Capsula-4_Gilberta-Jimenez_Seres-de-Niebla.png)
![SDN #3 – Galilea Bracho – LGTBIQ+ Human Rights Activist and Defender](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Capsula-3_Galilea-Bracho_Seres-de-Niebla.png)
![SDN #2 – Aurora Chaj – Singer-songwriter](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Capsula-2_-Aurora-Chaj_Seres-de-Niebla.png)
![SDN #1 Cristina Chiquin – Photojournalist](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Carrousel-1-serie.jpg)
![Respect](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/El-Respeto-Carrousels.jpg)
![Power to the People](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/carrousel-poder-pueblo.jpg)
![Piatúa Resists](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Piatúa-Resiste-640-1.jpg)
![Petu Mongueleiñ](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Carrousels2-3.jpg)
![Panzós Memory for the Land – Massacre of 1978](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SENORA-PANCARTA.jpg)
![Open Air](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/c-1.jpg)
![New Political Constitution of the State](https://miradanativa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Nueva-Constitucion-Politica-del-Estado_cartel-en-carrousels.jpg)