EL LUGAR MÁS PEQUEÑO (THE TINIEST PLACE)

Mexico 2011 - DCP - 108 minutes, in Spanish with English subtitles

Director, Screenplay: Tatiana Huezo

Producer: Nicolás Celis

Print Courtesy: Icarus Films and CCC

Though it was “only” Huezo’s film school thesis project, THE TINIEST PLACE won Mexico’s Ariel Award for Best Documentary in 2011. Venturing to El Salvador, Huezo has given voice to residents of a small, rural town who recall the country’s bloody civil war and recall their loved ones who perished in it. But, ever reliant on her striking sense of imagery, Huezo has made something that goes far beyond “talking heads” to take us into these people’s worlds.

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Mexico, El Salvador 2015 – DCP – 28 minutes, in Spanish with English subtitles

Director: Tatiana Huezo

Producers: Anaïs Vignal, Julio López

Editor: Lucrecia Gutiérrez Maupomé

Print Courtesy: Tatiana Huezo

Huezo made it two-for-two with her win of a second Ariel (Mexican Oscar) Award for her second film, this time for Best Documentary Short. After five years, Lulú still lives in a house by herself, yet continues to nurture her hopes of finding her husband and son alive after their kidnapping on the road to Monterey.

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Noche De Fuego

Mexico 2021 - DCP - 110 minutes, in Spanish with English subtitles

Director, Screenplay: Tatiana Huezo

Producers: Nicolás Celis, Jim Stark

Cast: Guillermo Villegas, Mayra Batalla, Alejandra Camacho

Monday, July 11 6:30 P.M. | RR1

One of this year’s 15 shortlisted Oscar films for Best International Film, NOCHE DE FUEGO (Huezo’s preferred title) is a full-blown knockout. Largely shot from the perspective of its central, very young characters, living in a world that’s not what we normally associate with childhood, NOCHE DE FUEGO is “an intimate, tactile study of the fabric of female friendship set against a blood-stained backdrop of Mexico’s cartel-based conflict; a coming-of-age journey in a world that is poisoned – literally – by violence. But bleak as the facts of life undoubtedly are in this mountainous region in central Mexico, Huezo creates a beguiling, heady sense of enchantment which links the lives of Ana (played by Ana Cristina Ordóñez González as an 8-year-old and Marya Membreño as a 13-year-old) and her two friends…. Huezo’s picture, which is loosely adapted from a novel by Jennifer Climent, is distinctive in its child’s-eye-view of this most abnormal of normalities”—Wendy Ide, Screen Daily —Ken Eisen