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The Return of Lencho

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?

Top Cast

  • Mario Lanz

    Mario Lanz

    Lorenzo 'Lencho' Aguilar

  • Miriam Arenas

    Miriam Arenas

    Magali Cruz

  • Tatiana Palomo

    Tatiana Palomo

    Camila Ibarguen

  • Emanuel Loarca

    Emanuel Loarca

    Ernesto 'Neco' Pacheco

  • Manuel Chitay Cos

    Manuel Chitay Cos

    Marin Pineda

  • Jorge Asturias

    Jorge Asturias

    Carlos Robledo

  • Carlos Chacon

    Carlos Chacon

    El Chino

  • Douglas Vazques

    Douglas Vazques

    Sargento Rodriguez

  • Roberto Díaz Gomar

    Roberto Díaz Gomar

    Johnny Montes

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?

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