THE TINIEST PLACE
El lugar más pequeño
Mexico | 2011 | 108 min
The civil war in El Salvador, which started in 1979 and lasted for 12 years, ended with over eighty thousand casualties and thousands of desaparecidos. Countless villages were razed and ceased existing even in official maps. After two decades, the community of Cinquera has repopulated their village destroyed and abandoned during the conflict: new and old inhabitants coexist with the memories of a recent past marked by violence. Tatiana Huezo travels from Mexico to her country of origin, collecting eyewitness accounts from a resisting people that are trying to reconstruct their village from the ashes on their own. El lugar más pequeño creates a mosaic of images and words in which the voices of a wounded community weave the threads of a dialogue that is bringing life where hate and death prevailed. The filmmaker sets up for the viewer a space for listening and empathy in an immersive journey into hope. A hope found in the middle of a forest, a protective and vital force of a new future of peace. (a.d.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 08 Nov 2023
- Time: 12:00
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.
