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With his previous feature, 2019's La Llorona, Guatemalan writer/director Jayro Bustamente employed the titular Latin-American folk legend to examine a dark chapter in his country's history - the "Silent Holocaust", a decades long genocide of the nation's Mayan people. With Rita he similarly employs dark fantasy elements to highlight a shameful event in Guatemala's more recent past.
