Las águilas humanas

Las Aguilas Humanas is a film that follows a small family circus in Guatemala. The circus stays in one town for a maximum of 4 weeks and then travels to the next one and so on for the whole year. The constant motion prevents the members of the circus from making friends, going to school, or participating in any form of community activity. The only window to the mainstream culture is through TV and the casual contacts they might have with people during their short stays. Las Aguilas Humanas tell the story of how the isolation created by constant travel has stunt the evolution of rights and values: It has allowed the male members of the circus to maintain a micro culture where machismo is seen as a virtue and women are treated as if the year was 1955.