Tatiana Huezo

Tatiana Huezo (b. 1972, San Salvador, El Salvador) grew up in Mexico, where she studied at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City; she earned her master's degree in documentary filmmaking at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She has been making short films since late 1990s. Her feature-length documentary debut The Tiniest Place (El lugar más pequeño, 2011). In the film she travels to El Salvador to meet the inhabitants of a village located somewhere deep in the wilderness, for whom the scourge of the Civil War is still a painful memory. Through the testimonies of traumatised men and women she pieces together a macabre image of a jungle strewn with bodies slowly decaying into oblivion. Tempestad, the director's second feature, was premiered at this year's Berlinale.

MFF Karlovy Vary