
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.