"The Silver Hugo, ex aequo, goes to Our Mothers. The film's quasi-documentary style maps a young man's intense confrontation with Guatemala's post-civil war national reckoning and its implications for his life, his livelihood, his family, and his very identity. The jury was moved by the stakes of the storytelling and the film's sense of urgency, as well as by director Cesar Diaz's delicate and empathetic engagement with the meanings and boundaries of personal agency, trauma, and family."
