IDENTIFYING FEATURES / SIN SEÑAS PARTICULARES
A film by Fernanda Valadez
(Mexico, 2020, 94 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
A Kino Lorber release
Middle-aged Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him—and to know whether or not he’s even alive—she embarks on an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth. At the same time, a young man named Miguel (David Illescas) has returned to Mexico after being deported from the U.S., and eventually his path converges with Magdalena’s. From this simple but urgent premise, director Fernanda Valadez has crafted a lyrical, suspenseful slow burn, equally constructed of moments of beauty and horror, and which leads to a startling, shattering conclusion. Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Audience and Screenplay Awards at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Gotham Award for Best International Feature.
Opens Friday, January 22
Arena Theater, Point Arena, CA
Athens Cine, Athens, GA
BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Burns Court Cinemas, Sarasota, FL
Charlotte Film Society, Charlotte, NC
CinemaSavannah, Savannah, GA
Cinémonde, New York, NY
Cleveland Cinematheque, Cleveland, OH
Coral Gables Art Cinema, Coral Gables, FL
Crandell Theatre, Chatham, NY
Darkside Cinema, Corvallis, OR
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Downing Film Center, Newburgh, NY
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle, WA
Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
Onyx Theatre, Nevada City, CA
Oxnard Film Society, Oxnard, CA
Palm Springs Cultural Center, Palm Springs, CA
Park City Film Series, Park City, UT
Plaza Cinema & Media Arts Center, Patchogue, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, ME
Red River Theatres, Concord, NH
Rehoboth Beach Film Society, Rehoboth Beach, DE
Rialto Cinemas Cerrito, El Cerrito, CA
Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, Berkeley, CA
Rialto Cinemas Sebastopol, Sebastopol, CA
Sag Harbor Cinema, Sag Harbor, NY
Sudbury Indie Cinema, Sudbury, ON
Tampa Theatre, Tampa, FL
The Film Lab, Hamtramck, MI
The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana, CA
The Nightlight Cinema, Akron, OH
Tivoli at the Nelson-Atkins, Kansas City, MO
UW-Madison Cinematheque, Madison, WI
Vickers Theatre, Three Oaks, MI
Vogue Theatre, Manistee, MI
Zinema 2, Duluth, MN
