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Fernanda Tovar

Tovar ; Fernanda

Direction, Edition, Photography, Script, Production
Fernanda Tovar is a Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter, and a member of the Colmena Collective. She graduated from the Film Training Center [CCC, by its initialism in Spanish, Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica] and participated in Berlinale Talents Guadalajara and Berlinale Talents Latin America: Memorias de un territorio in 2020. Her short film Mi edad, la tuya y la edad del mundo [My Age, Yours, and the Age of the World] was part of the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2022 and earned a special mention at the Morelia International Film Festival. In 2024, her short film Quiero estrellarme en seco contra el parabrisas del amor [I Want to Smash Straight Into Love’s Windshield] premiered at the Tribeca Festival. Her first feature film, Chicas tristes [Sad Girlz], premiered at the 76th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Crystal Bear and the Grand Prix for Best Film in Generation 14plus.

Other Movies

The Dreamers

Los soñadores
In Paris, American student Matthew meets a brother and sister, with whom he shares a passion for film. When their parents leave for the countryside, he moves in with them and learns that their relationship surpasses the boundaries of ordinary sibling affection. See More

If I Were Fire

Si yo fuese fuego
Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More

Lives on the Border

Vidas en la orilla
Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More

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