Nicolás Pereda, born 1982, is a Mexican-Canadian filmmaker whose work explores the everyday through fractured and elliptical narratives using fiction and documentary tools. His films have been exhibited in festivals around the world like Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto and San Sebastian. He has had more than thirty retrospectives in various festivals, cinematheques and archives.
Photographed in austere black and white, this film spins mythic tales around an actual Roma family living inside a Toronto housing block for asylum seekers. As the family awaits their day in court, the kids try to stave off boredom by goofing around while the adults repeat and refine stories about their past, some real and some fictional. Observational but never cold, this hybrid work offers a ...
Photographed in austere black and white, this film spins mythic tales around an actual Roma family living inside a Toronto housing block for asylum seekers. As the family awaits their day in court, the kids try to stave off boredom by goofing around while the adults repeat and refine stories about their past, some real and some fictional. Observational but never cold, this hybrid work offers a ...