“Talking about the past restores people’s dignity”

<p>In <em>The Silence of the Mole</em>, Guatemalan filmmaker Anaïs Taracena says cinema can “break through walls of silence” in societies suffocated by fear and impunity. Her chronicle of the infiltration of Elías Barahona as right-hand man of the brutal Minister of Governance Donaldo Álvarez Ruiz is a tale of a secret meticulously kept to stave off mortal danger.</p>