TEMPESTAD
Mexico | 2016 | 105 min
In a gloomy Mexico in arms, a woman’s voice describes the traumatic experience of having been unjustly arrested and then imprisoned in some jail controlled by a drug cartel. It was an actual descent into Hell: the heroine, whose face will never be revealed, is one of the uncountable innocent victims of the armed conflict between drug trade and government that has been tormenting Mexico for decades. Another woman’s voice joins: it is a circus performer, whose job helps her heal her own trauma. Her daughter was kidnapped by armed men. In her second feature-length documentary, Tatiana Huezo outlines a new geography of the violence in her country, showing a shady, corrupt Mexico punctuated with military checkpoints from the north to the south, lost in cloudy wastelands. Tempestad is a refuge for the voiceovers of its heroines, creating closeness to their stories of violence while at the same time taking the painful picture of a country in which women are the main victims of an endless war. (a.d.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 07 Nov 2023
- Time: 15:00
Location
- Spazio Alfieri - Via dell'Ulivo, 8, 50122 Florence
Organizer
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Tatiana Huezo
Tatiana Huezo graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) in Mexico City and has a Master Degree in Creative Documentary from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker, she gained an international reputation with her feature debut, The Tiniest Place (2011), which screened at more than 80 international festivals. Her work has been widely recognized around the world and acknowledged by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences with eight Ariel awards; among them Best Documentary and Best Director for Tempestad, which premiered in the 66th Berlinale Forum in 2016; as well as Best Film for Prayers for the Stolen, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival, where it received a special mention from the jury in 2021. She has given conferences and taught classes in academic spaces like La Escuela de Cine de la Comunidad in Madrid, École cantonale d'art de Lausanne, University of California Santa Barbara, The Green House in Israel as well as the CCC, among others. Huezo is considered one of the most important voices in contemporary Mexican cinema, and her work has received numerous awards worldwide.
