Identifying Features
Sin Señas Particulares

Synopsis

Magdalena’s son disappears while trying to enter the United States. Not acknowledging his death, she retraces his steps to seek the truth. Along the way she meets Miguel, recently deported from the US and returning to a home that is no more. In the borderlands that their search takes them through, peril is understood yet seldom recognisable, while the kindness of strangers exists alongside devilish aggressors.

Fernanda Valadez looks beyond ruin to embrace a visual signature of distortions and apparitions, never far from our incendiary reality. Rounded off by unyieldingly stoic performances and Clarice Jensen’s haunting score, this smouldering thriller both retells and resists the extremes of a humanitarian crisis.