Alaide Foppa Falla, The Unfortunate One

Directed by María del Carmen de Lara and Leopoldo Best

With Arturo Taracena, Marta Lamas, Silvia Solórzano, Laura Solórzano and Elena Poniatowska

In the course of Alaide Foppa's life, she became a precursor of feminism in Mexico. She was an immigrant who, in her own way, tried to break the molds established by her upper-class upbringing. Her sensitivity and intellectual development made her question matters of social injustice, educational and gender inequalities, the importance of socially-committed art forms and the vindication of democracy throughout Latin America. Her tragic end reveals much about the history of Guatemala.