Natalia Luque
Directing
Biography
Natalia Luque is a Chilean filmmaker based in New York. Her fiction short films Soy Sola (2019) and La Virgen, La Vieja y el Viaje (2020) have screened at FICValdivia, Havana, Brussels, Torino, LALIFF, and PS Shortfest. Recently Natalia became a BAFTA Newcomer 2022. She is currently developing her first feature Señorita de Buena Presencia, official selection of Ventana Sur, Nuevas Miradas 2020 and Bolivia Lab and finishing her thesis short film Asi Dicen (2022), winner of two production grants.
Known For
A lonely beautician suffering from the onset of menopause is encouraged by her young client to pursue a love interest. The two women, youthful and aging, find unexpected insight in the advice of the other
On My Own
Rumors spread like wildfire in a small Chilean town as an aborted fetus is found floating on a lake. A single mother and saleswoman’s values and morals are put to test when she discovers the culprit to be one of her young female clients.
So They Say
In present-day downtown Santiago, in a shopping mall seemingly frozen in time, 55-year-old hairdresser Marta María faces an empty nest after her only daughter departs for a year in France. To cope with the loneliness, she immerses herself in her work, finding solace and connection by living vicariously through her clients’ stories.
Decorous Woman
Rocio, a Colombian immigrant living in New York, is forced to work as a cleaner. After a phone call with her family, she learns that her grandmother is severely ill and is about to pass away. While communicating at a distance becomes more difficult, Rocio will use technology to say farewell her grandmother.
The Virgen, The Old Lady, The Journey
On the anniversary of Marisol’s husband’s death, her neighbor’s construction uncovers human remains. The coincidence of this discovery terrorizes Marisol, a superstitious visionary, to face her own mortality.