Elías Jiménez Trachtenberg

Movies

Giants Don't Exist
Giants Don't Exist
Producer
Guatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he's scared. Pedro's wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as "her new son" - even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family - until his sister appears.
V.I.P.: Very Important Prisoners
V.I.P.: Very Important Prisoners
Director
Crime - Shot inside of one of Guatemala's most dangerous prisons, with it's inmate population as actors in the film. - Juan Pablo Olyslager, Monica Palmieri, Jorge 'El Pumita' Asturias
The House Across the Street
The House Across the Street
Director
The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of age. When days later found the girl's body, horribly maimed in the back of the house of one of the most famous residents of the village, all Alsina Alvaro suspect as the perpetrator.