Streams of silence
Valentina Pelayo Atilano
Mexico, Spain, Portugal, 2022, 28'
Mexico, Spain, Portugal, 2022, 28'
Producer: Valentina Pelayo Atilano
Awards and Festivals (selection):
Special Mention - Latin American Short Film Competition, FicValdivia International Film Festival, 2022 - Chile
Special Mention - Mexican Documentary Shorts Competition, Morelia International Film Festival, 2022 - Mexico
FICUNAM International Cinema Festival, 2022 - Mexico
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, 2022 - Portugal
FIFEQ International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec, 2023 - Canada
Awards and Festivals (selection):
Special Mention - Latin American Short Film Competition, FicValdivia International Film Festival, 2022 - Chile
Special Mention - Mexican Documentary Shorts Competition, Morelia International Film Festival, 2022 - Mexico
FICUNAM International Cinema Festival, 2022 - Mexico
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, 2022 - Portugal
FIFEQ International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec, 2023 - Canada
Resembling a constellation of ideas and sentiments of a (still) wounded land, the taxi ride of the filmmaker through Mexico City interweaves Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s account of “The True History of the Conquest of New Spain”; from there sprouts the echoes of violence and what remains in silence.