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Pereda; Nicolás

Direction, Art direction, Edition, Script, Music, Production, Sound
Nicolás Pereda is a filmmaker whose work delves into everyday life through fractured and elliptical narratives, blending elements of fiction and documentary. He often collaborates with the theater collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol and with actress Teresita Sánchez. His films have been shown in more than thirty retrospectives around the world at institutions such as Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, Jeonju International Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque. His films have also been screened at international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, and Toronto, as well as in renowned galleries and museums such as the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Since 2020, he has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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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