STREAMS OF SILENCE

TRAZOS DE SILENCIO

Valentina Pelayo Atilano • Mexico, Spain, Portugal • 2022 • 28 min. • 16mm, 35mm, HD

Valentina Pelayo Atilano
Mexico, Spain, Portugal • 2022
28 min. • 16mm, 35mm, HD

SYNOPSIS

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.

TRAILER

MARKETS & LABS

Arché Doc • Doclisboa. Portugal (2020)
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola -Finalization of the short film-. Spain (2021) 

AWARDS

Special Mention | Latin American Short Film Competition
FicValdivia International Film Festival. Chile (2022)
Special Mention | Mexican Documentary Shorts Competition
Morelia International Film Festival. Mexico (2022)
 

FESTIVALS & ALTERNATIVE SCREENINGS

FICUNAM International Cinema Festival. Mexico (2022)
Curtas Vila Do Conde International Film Festival. Portugal (2022)
SHORTS MEXICO International Shorts Film Festival. Mexico (2022)
Frontera Sur International Non-Fiction Film Festival. Chile (2022)
FIFEQ International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec. Canada (2023)
Philadelphia Latino Film Festival. United States (2023)
Marienbad Film Festival. Czech Republic (2023)
Galeria Zé dos Bois | “Paisagens Políticas” Curated by Cátia Rodrigues. Portugal (2023)
Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale. United States (2023)

PRESS

"Due to its experimental nature, equally remarkable on the narrative and formal levels, Streams of Silence proposes another look, another geography, where the boundaries between the personal and the political are blurred and individual and collective experience become one and the same."

CINEBLOG IFILNOVA • by Cátia Rodrigues • Portuguese Only

CREW

DIRECTOR & SCREENWRITER
Valentina Pelayo Atilano

PRODUCER
Valentina Pelayo Atilano

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Valentina Pelayo Atilano

SOUND
Anuar Yahya

SOUND DESIGNER
Miguel Martins
Miguel Diogo
Bernardo Feldman
Valentina Pelayo Atilano

EDITING
Valentina Pelayo Atilano

CAST
Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez
Valentina Pelayo Atilano

FESTIVALS & WORLD SALES
María Vera (KINO REBELDE)