Natalia León
Directing
Biography
Natalia León was born in Mexico City in 1997. She left Mexico at the age of 17 to pursue her studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where she specialized in animation. Passionate about writing and storytelling, she decided to complete her training at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she primarily studied screenwriting and directing actors. In 2021, during her final year at ENSAD, she wrote and developed the project Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado, her first animated short film, produced by Xbo Films, which is set to be released in 2025.
Known For
Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past. But the violence she witnessed as a child has not abated, and the journey rekindles memories that are impossible to reconcile with.
As if Swallowed by Earth
This is a mother who lives inadapted to a world of rigid structures: those of the system, those of the family, those of women. With neither direction nor ownership of the spaces she inhabits, on impulse she decides to abandon her children and enter the forest. In this place giant trees, waving hands and the unknown quantity of some sheets emerge that will guide her at all times. Appearing out of the atmosphere, women dressed in white will accompany her as she mourns her motherhood.