I’ve heard many mothers say that in order to get closure they need to know for certain that their children are dead because not knowing is an eternal suffering.” “That suspense without end is the greatest pain. “At some point Magdalena says, ‘My son might be dead, but I need to know,’” the actress said. The situation has become so precarious that even finding a body to bury seems far-fetched for many in search of a loved one. The film - which Rondero co-wrote, co-edited, and produced - wrestles with the very real atrocities from the sorrowful perspective of a middle-aged woman on a quest to find her missing son, dead or alive. “What cinema does is to establish a conversation with reality, and that’s what makes it critical and nonconformist by nature, even if the themes are personal,” Valadez added.Īn unshakable drama tinged with thriller elements, Valadez’s directorial debut, “Identifying Features” (Sin señas particulares), recently collected the inaugural Gotham Award for international feature and is now available via Kino Marquee and virtual cinemas. “It pushes you to want to defend yourself, and to want to talk about the issues the country is going through.”. “It’s inevitable to have a political stance because our reality is so harsh,” Rondero said.
Neither of them set out to make movies with a social justice angle, but coming of age as artists in this environment urged them to confront the appalling national trauma. Not at a moment in history when thousands disappear or are murdered as a consequence of drug-related violence and the widespread state complicity that enables it. Outspoken filmmaking duo Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero don’t believe Mexican storytellers have the luxury of creating apolitically.
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