Fernanda Valadez’s debut feature Identifying Features / Sin señas particulares was the big winner at the 18th annual edition of the Morelia Film Festival winning three awards, for Best Film, Best Actress, and the Audience Award.
Identifying Features, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and recently was awarded with the top prize at the Zurich Film Festival and the Best Latin American Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival, tells the story of Magdalena (played by Mercedes Hernández), who sets out on a journey in search of her disappeared son en route to the U.S. border. Traveling through desolate towns and landscapes she meets Miguel, a young man recently deported from the U.S. who is making his way home. The two accompany one another: Magdalena, looking for her son, and Miguel, eager to see his mother again, in a region where victims and aggressors ramble together.
Other winners announced today by the Morelia Film Festival include Nicolás Pereda’s Fauna for Best Director, Martijn Kuiper for Best Actor in Rodrigo Fiallega’s Ricochet, Uriel López España’s Uriel Tu´un Savi for Best Documentary, Eduardo Esquivel and Omar Robles’ The Night Flowers / Las flores de la noche was the winner of the Documentary Audience Award, and Laura Herrero Garvín’s La mami was the winner of a Special Mention in the documentary category.
The 18th edition of the Morelia Film Festival took place in a hybrid format between October 28 and November 1.
