Movies: Nicolás Pereda
- 2024
Lázaro de noche (2024)
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Three friends – a trio in love – get together after an audition. Their prosaic exchanges take a different turn when they remember how they met....
- 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
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Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema....
- 2011
Summer of Goliath (2011)
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Summer of Goliath is a documentary/fiction hybrid that narrates various stories of the people of the town of Huilotepec in rural Mexico. Teresa's husband has disappeared and she believes he has left her for another woman. Gabino, her son, is a soldie...
- 2007
Where Are Their Stories? (2007)
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Vicente (Gabino Rodríguez) is a young farmer in a rural village who scrapes by while taking care of his ill grandmother. Several of Vicente’s uncles intend to their ailing mother’s land without her knowledge. Vicente seeks help from the municipal pre...
- 2013
The Palace (2013)
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The Palace is a documentary that follows the everyday life of seventeen women who live together, sharing a large house for emotional and financial reasons. They help each other to train for various jobs. Most become nannies, domestic workers and priv...
- 2015
The Empty Classroom (2015)
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Eleven award winning directors explore why nearly one out of every two students in Latin America never graduates high school....
- 2016
Tales of Two Who Dreamt (2016)
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Tales of Two Who Dreamt is set in a housing block in Toronto and pivots on representation and self-representation. Here, a Roma family rehearses the stories of their past for the upcoming hearing on their residency status....
- 2021
Fauna (2021)
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A pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village....
- 2019
My Skin, Luminous (2019)
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Enigmatic and deceptively playful in tone, this film from Gabino Rodríguez, in collaboration with Nicolás Pereda, boldly transforms mundane, realist observations at a rural Mexican schoolhouse into fantasy and a sly comment on childhood, rituals, and...
- 2022
Flora (2022)
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A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-traffick...
- 2019
Fausto (2019)
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On the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust lege...
- 2012
Greatest Hits (2012)
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When Gabino's father returns home after a long absence, the two men awkwardly attempt to re-establish a relationship; but Gabino and his mother quickly tire of this man who has become a stranger to them and decide to kick him out, before realizing th...
- 2015
Minotaur (2015)
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Minotaur takes place in a home of books, of readers, of artists. It’s also a home of soft light, of eternal afternoons, of sleepiness, of dreams. The home is impermeable to the world. Mexico is on fire, but the characters of Minotaur sleep soundly....
- 2013
Killing Strangers (2013)
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A series of auditions is taking place in a museum-like living room. Various men improvise or deliver prepared lines, rehearse gestures and slogans, aim guns, and collapse as if mortally wounded. The theme of revolution is repeatedly invoked. In betwe...
- 2009
Perpetuum Mobile (2009)
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An itinerant mover works from the streets of Mexico City with his partner and lives with his beleaguered mother. A heightened tension within the home – by the absent older brother and unmentioned father. Gabino's casual pursuit of a career is interru...
- 2008
Interview with the Earth (2008)
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Through a series of interviews and enactments we learn the story of Nico and Amalio, two children who lost a friend while climbing a mountain. Documentary and fiction seamlessly merge creating a hybrid, poetic film....
- 2009
Together (2009)
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Gabino, Luisa and Paco share a small apartment in Mexico City. With no money and nothing to do they decice to leave the city....
- 2010
All Things Were Now Overtaken By Silence (2010)
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Carefully shot in black and white, All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence is a meditation on the filming of a strange play: a fascinating monologue by actress, director, performance artist and political activist Jesusa Rodriguez of Sor Juana Ines d...
- 2021
Dear Chantal (2021)
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Pereda returns with a small, mysterious and moving tribute to Chantal Akerman, conceived as a series of joyful impossible letters addressed to the great disappeared from the cinema, to answer her fictional question about renting her bright apartment ...
- 2014
The Absent (2014)
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An old man lives alone in a shabby cabin in a remote mountainous area of Mexico. His house is set to be demolished in order to facilitate the redevelopment of the area. He doesn't know how to protect his house. Time goes by and one day a young man sh...