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Dafne Herrera

Dafne Herrera

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Biography

Dafne Herrera is a film student at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas (ENAC) of the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México (UNAM). A resident of the state of Querétaro, Dafne moved to Mexico City in 2019, the year in which she entered the Bachelor of Science in Communication at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of UNAM. During that period, Dafne attended the course "Mexican horror film, the transculturation of a genre" taught by Professor José Luis Ortega Torres, at the UNAM Film Library. In 2021, Dafne joined the ENAC, where she has participated in student and independent short films, playing different roles in cinematographic work, such as directing, editing, directing assistance, cinema photography assistance and direct sound. In 2024, Dafne made his first documentary short film ̈Good morning, Margarita ̈. Currently, she is specializing in making fiction films.

Known For

Ángel
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Ángel, a small 5-year-old, watches as her mother takes care of her grandmother who is sick with terminal cancer. As the relationships around him start to deteriorate, Ángel tries to help her grandmother…

Ángel

2023
Good Morning, Margarita
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«All my mom’s teeth fell out, I’m only going for about three months and I return» was what Pancho dreamed of fulfilling when he crossed the US border without papers, but an accident during the trip transformed his life and his aunt Margarita.

Good Morning, Margarita

2024
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During a drawing workshop, a girl traces on the wall of her room the memory of her sexual abuse; a young woman recalls the night in which the deception of those she once called friends turned into harassment. By sharing the stories with other girls and women, they realise that these are not isolated events but fragments of a shared wound.

Maps from Within

2026
The Night
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Luisa and her sister Estela will play hide and seek during a particular night. They both have suffered an important loss in their family, the mourning and grief will be present inside their house all night long.

The Night

2023
ALHIVE
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One morning, Leonardo Galicia wakes up with a dull pain and an intense fever. After a pandemic experience that made him aware of his mortality, the last thing Leonardo expected was an HIV-reactive result.
 The illness caused by the virus takes hold of Leonardo's body and forces him to take an indefinite break while recovering in a hospital. There, he meets a mysterious young man, Augusto. By sharing common thoughts, hopes, and dreams, the two will find refuge in each other's arms.

ALHIVE

2024
Return
5.1

Gerardo returns home with a pack of dogs barking in the background on a dark night. Inside his house he will find an altar with flowers and orange lights. Now it will be the silence that will guide his steps to find out what is on that altar.

Return

2023
The Mermaid
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A trip that the author makes to a distant beach trying to find the place where his grandfather made a painting years ago.

The Mermaid

2024
The Good Being
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In the middle of a trip, Rubí, an eight-year-old girl, discovers within herself a powerful desire to eat roses. The rigidity and severity of her mother forces her to act in secret, until her desire manages to transform into something else.

The Good Being

2023
Memory for a Worker
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A journey through the day of a worker in the form of memories and sensations, through which we will reflect on the slow passage of a life dedicated to work.

Memory for a Worker

2024