El Silencio de Neto (The Silence of Neto)

The Silence of Neto is set in the six months that followed the CIA-staged coup that overthrew Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán in 1954. As a nation loses its innocence, an asthmatic 12-year-old boy, Neto Yepes (Óscar Javier Almengor), begins to discover his identity and sexuality while navigating love, death, and fraught family dynamics. When Neto’s friends discover a machine gun near a dead body, an atmosphere of silence and tension sets in, dissipating only when Neto’s Uncle Ernesto rebels, urging him to break the silence in order to breathe.

Screening at Row House Cinema.