EL NECECER ROJO
(The Red Vanity Case)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by:Azalea Aguilar
Cinematography: Edson Reyes
Length: 15:00 min
Format: 16mm
Year: 2024
Shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Film.
Synopsis:
A red vanity case holds an unadorned story of a mother’s life. The daughter, ever the observer, watches as it fills with secrets, losses, and finally, ashes. This is the inheritance of migration, revealing the quiet tension between independence and abandonment, told with clinical precision in this award winning film.
EL NECECER ROJO
(The Red Vanity Case)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by:Azalea Aguilar
Cinematography: Edson Reyes
Length: 15:00 min
Format: 16mm
Year: 2024
Shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Film.
Synopsis:
A red vanity case holds an unadorned story of a mother’s life. The daughter, ever the observer, watches as it fills with secrets, losses, and finally, ashes. This is the inheritance of migration, revealing the quiet tension between independence and abandonment, told with clinical precision in this award winning film.
(The Red Vanity Case)
Festivals:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024
Festivals:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024
- Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (Winner: Best Mexican Short Documentary Film)
- Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (Winner: Best Mexican Short Documentary Film)
- Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (Winner: Best Mexican Short Documentary Film)
- Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024
- Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024
- Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024
- Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, 2024
- Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo CDMX, 2024
- Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo CDMX, 2024
- Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo CDMX, 2024
