In Polvora en el corazon (Gunpowder Heart) impotence plagues the minds of two queer Guatemalan girls sick and tired with the intolerable state of helplessness of an economically weakened and morally decaying culture. Misguidedly, a firearm infects the duo with a dangerous self- confidence to amend, by force, an unspeakable offense.
Based on the writer-director’s individual accounts, Camila Urrutia’s debut function echoes the tone and content of Aurora Guerrero’s Mosquita y Mari and Laura Mora Ortega’s Matar a Jesus (Killing Jesus), but nonetheless carves a singularly psychological dynamic from its certain national context therefore the conflicted motivations of this females it observes.