The Return of Lencho (El regreso de Lencho) 14 years old

LENCHO, a 30-year-old artist and graffiti writer, is back in Guatemala after living a decade in New York. Eager to bring artistic expression to his home country silenced by over 30 years of terror, Lencho assembles a collective of artists to produce public art projects of social impact. As its first activity, the group organizes an art festival in Rabinal, a small, indigenous village in the Guatemalan highlands. The group's work comes of interest to the director of a secret "social cleansing" program of the national police designed to quash dissension and organizing among the youth. As Lencho labors to coordinate the music, poetry and muralism components of the festival, he finds himself increasingly haunted by memories of the death of his father, a journalist during the civil war. "El Regreso de Lencho" portrays one man's journey to self-knowledge and action: can Guatemala do the same?

Credits

The Return of Lencho Cast

Name Character
Giacomo Buonafina as Alex
Jose Mario Massella as Ramón Aguilar
Emanuel Loarca as Ernesto 'Neco' Pacheco
Miriam Arenas as Magali Cruz
Jorge Asturias as Carlos Robledo
Marlene Mancilla as Waitress
Mario Lanz as Lorenzo 'Lencho' Aguilar
Roberto Díaz Gomar as Johnny Montes
Tatiana Palomo as Camila Ibarguen

The Return of Lencho Crew

Name Department
Mario Rosales as Director. Directing
Mario Rosales as Screenplay. Writing
Mario Rosales as Writer. Writing
The Return of Lencho (14 years)

  • Release day: Friday, January 01, 2010
  • Runtime: 100 minutes