The films of Tatiana Huezo Sánchez

Born in El Salvador and living in Mexico, Tatiana Huezo Sánchez graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) in Mexico City and obtained her Master’s in Creative Documentary from Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University. After her early films, shorts such as “Arido” (1992), “Familia” (2004) and “Sueño” (2005), she gained international recognition with her first feature “El Lugar más pequeño” (2011). It premiered at Visions du Réel in 2011, winning the Grand Prix for Best Feature before being screened at more than 80 festivals worldwide. After the short “Ausencias” (2015), she made “Tempestad” (2016), presented in an international première at the Berlinale (Forum Section). In 2021, she unveiled her first feature-length drama “Noche de fuego”. Special guest of the 52nd Visions du Réel with a retrospective of her films and a masterclass, the Swiss festival writes “Through a body of work as committed as it is personal, Tatiana Huezo paints the portrait of her country and relentlessly denounces the mechanisms of terror, employing a poetic and sensitive cinematographical language, which succeeds, with great decency, in giving substance to absence, violence and suffering”.

Born in El Salvador and living in Mexico, Tatiana Huezo Sánchez graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) in Mexico City and obtained her Master’s in Creative Documentary from Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University. After her early films, shorts such as “Arido” (1992), “Familia” (2004) and “Sueño” (2005), she gained international recognition with her first feature “El Lugar más pequeño” (2011). It premiered at Visions du Réel in 2011, winning the Grand Prix for Best Feature before being screened at more than 80 festivals worldwide. After the short “Ausencias” (2015), she made “Tempestad” (2016), presented in an international première at the Berlinale (Forum Section). In 2021, she unveiled her first feature-length drama “Noche de fuego”.
Special guest of the 52nd Visions du Réel with a retrospective of her films and a masterclass, the Swiss festival writes “Through a body of work as committed as it is personal, Tatiana Huezo paints the portrait of her country and relentlessly denounces the mechanisms of terror, employing a poetic and sensitive cinematographical language, which succeeds, with great decency, in giving substance to absence, violence and suffering”.