Evolution of Violence asks how violence becomes interwoven into the fabric of a society. Profiles and interviews reveal how individual lives are shaped by ongoing atrocities. Journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed, former rebels mourn their comrades, and a war criminal has nightmares about all the things he's done.
While offering a profile of the ongoing violence in today's society, the film looks to historical events — told through the use of archival footage — from Guatemala's colonial history and place in the global banana trade, to the roots of its 36-year civil war, to try to understand how a culture of violence is created.
SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Nominee, Austrian Film Prize, "Best Documentary"
In Between the Seas Competition, Jihlava
Festival del Film Locarno – Semaine de la Critique
Muestra de Cine Europeo, Segovia
FIPATEL, Biarritz
Diagonale, Graz
DocuDays, Kiev
Doha - Al Jazeera Documentary Film Festival
Muestra de Cine Internacional, Guatemala
Internationales Film Festival, Innsbruck
Open City Docs Festival, London
Document 10, Glasgow
Mar del Plata Film Festival