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Adrianna Maldonado

Adrianna Maldonado

Directing

Biography

Adriana has a training in cinematography since middle school where she co-directs “El caracol” which is projected as part of the workshop material “Making cinema” at the UNAM online film library. Winner of the first place in the documentary short film for 45 years of the College of Sciences and Humanities with “En camino” which she directs and photographs. Winner of the fourth film critic contest FÓSFORO and published in the magazine Punto de Partida. Member of the young jury of the international festival Black Canvas third edition. Graduated from the Academia de San Carlos in Stage Production. Member of the young jury of the Black Canvas festival in its third edition. She carries out photography, script, production, art direction and production tasks in various exercises of the National School of Cinematographic Arts (ENAC) in which he is currently studying.

Known For

Tótem
6.8

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.

Tótem

2023
Memory of a Displaced Body
N/A

A ritual in the form of a film essay that explores, through collage, the sense of exile experienced during early childhood migration. It examines the primal configuration of detachment from one’s homeland, family environment, and body, and the reclamation of origins as a symbolic center.

Memory of a Displaced Body

2024
Christmases
N/A

Jaime, a nostalgic old man, gets a device that can make him relive his memories, which he uses to see the last Christmas he lived with his family in 1995. This will show him that all memories have a price.

Christmases

2023
Pitbull
2.3

Manuel is 23 years old, he is independent and his only company is his pitbull dog. One morning he meets Margarita, a woman twice his age and with whom he sleeps in a nearby motel, receiving the first anilingus of his life. Confused between pleasure and fear, Manuel reflects on his prejudices, his masculinity and his identity.

Pitbull

2023
A New Goodbye
N/A

Helen lives with her son Bruno, but Bruno doesn't behave like a normal kid. She will have to overcome the mourning crisis to withstand reality.

A New Goodbye

2019
Un silencio prolongado
N/A

A young couple will be forced to face their own reality upon the birth of their first daughter, and in the process to awaken the ghosts that had been asleep in their own subconsciousness, to the point of even questioning where the fine line between life or death lies.

Un silencio prolongado

2020
Rest of Delirium
N/A

Maricarmen is a writer who lives with schizophrenia since she was seventeen years old. The film is a portrait of her live, her illness and her work.

Rest of Delirium

2019
The Fire We've Built
N/A

A teenager plans her own kidnapping with the help of her boyfriend and her best friend. They dream of going to live in the United States to have the baby they are expecting; however, the situation gets out of control and she becomes a victim of her own game.

The Fire We've Built

2023
Letters to Claudia
N/A

Claudia is a young woman who spends her days working in an old bookstore. One day, after finding a forgotten letter in a book, she starts an adventure to deliver it.

Letters to Claudia

2019
Rondó por el placer
N/A

A place that seems out of time for everyday life, a long line of women waiting. And inside a room, three of them sitting... a cello piece transports them to their own experience of pleasure, body and eroticism. An exploration from a female perspective of the audiovisual and its ability to produce pleasure beyond narrative schemes. Female pleasure, liberation, feminism, gender, appropriation of the body, sexual freedom, women, cello, music, old age.

Rondó por el placer

2021
Anduve Entonces Con Gitanos
N/A

A group of friends in a car give a ride to a stranger who will affect their lives indirectly.

Anduve Entonces Con Gitanos

2019
A Flock of Thunder
N/A

A journey inward that delves into female identity, fragmenting and reinterpreting its representations, intervening in the images through stop-motion collage in search of freedom.

A Flock of Thunder

2025
Se habla de Gabriel
N/A

Documentary essay based on portraits of five women, their different ways of living motherhood, challenges and particularities.

Se habla de Gabriel

2020
Antes que lleguen los zopilotes
6.0

Tuza, a harsh and authoritarian fisherwoman, causes Justino's death, forcing her to embark on a journey of redemption with his widow, Luvina. Through Juan Rulfo's narrative environment, both women embark on a mysterious journey where their desires face loneliness.

Antes que lleguen los zopilotes

2023
Reflection
N/A

A young man feels uncomfortable with his boyfriend and returns to his apartment to masturbate, but something continues to affect his mood.

Reflection

2018
Anoche soñé con un fantasma
N/A

Raúl is seriously ill with COVID-19 in the hospital. His sisters wait at home for a call that will give them news about his state of health.

Anoche soñé con un fantasma

2022
En cualquier lugar
N/A

In a society where children are not heard and traditions are not to be questioned, the peaceful life of a 5-year-old is disturbed by a terrible event that forces her to find a way to recover peace and save her loved ones.

En cualquier lugar

2022