Global Voices : Discovering Dominga (2003)
Directed by Patricia Flynn
Genres - Historical Film |
Sub-Genres - Biography, Law & Crime, Social Issues, Military & War |
Run Time - 57 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
The story of Denese Becker, who, as a child, survived a 1982 military massacre in Rio Negro, Guatemala, that took the lives of her family and some 170 others. Adopted by an American couple, she was raised in Iowa, where she eventually married. Here, she travels to her homeland, where she reunites with relatives, joins a Widows and Orphans committee seeking justice for the massacre and agrees to testify in a human-rights case.
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activism, adoption, childhood, disinterment, family-strife, genocide, grave, Guatemala, injustice, journey, massacre, Maya, peasant, revelation, roots [origins], self-discovery, struggle, survivor, trauma, village, war-crimes
