As soon as the project took its first steps, “I understood that this fiction could not finish being told if it did not put the voice and the face and the names of some of the people who live this in their daily lives” and that “they were the ones who narrated it “, he indicated.
Thus, Beristáin’s third feature film is a mixture of fiction and documentary, in which the character of Julia meets real people from groups that search for the disappeared, who present their cases on screen.
“Dignify yours”
While traveling from Mexico City following her daughter’s trail to the area where she disappeareddevastated by drug trafficking and trafficking, Julia comes into contact with other people who fight for their rights, as a trans activist.
“For me, the important thing about the film ends up being the networks that (Julia) tends or weaves towards other women in her other struggles, in her other quests to dignify her men and women,” explains Beristáin.
Although shot in the state of San Luis Potosí, in part because it was a safer place for the team than other areas of Mexicoin the film it is not specified where Julia is moving as a way of showing that the drama of the disappeared “crosses the country in all its latitudes”, says the director.
The disappearances began in Mexico with the so-called “dirty war” of the authorities against the revolutionary movements of the 1960s-1980s, but they skyrocketed from the 2000s, with the increase in drug trafficking and the war that the government waged against them. declared.
According to the National Registry of Disappeared Persons, since 1964 the whereabouts of 104,464 people have been unknown.although search groups and activists believe that the figure is much higher, since some families do not report to the prosecutors out of fear or mistrust.
No echo in the government
In NoiseJulia also faces disdain, if not mistreatment, from officials and police, a reflection of reality.
“There has been no resonance in the federal government” of the protests by relatives of the disappeared due to the ineffectiveness of the authorities in finding their loved ones, laments Julieta Egurrola.
The actress says that cases such as the disappearance in 2014 of the 43 Ayotzinapa students have repercussionsbut the same does not happen with cases of families in which “one or two, sometimes up to four” people disappear.
Egurrola said she felt very “proud” of this first collaboration with her daughter, who, she said, had promised her a leading role in one of her productions.
There has been no resonance in the federal government
“It is extraordinary (…) that she is a female director who directs her actress mother, it is something special,” added Egurrola.
“Ruido” will premiere in Mexico at the Morelia Festival at the end of October and will then be included on Netflix, on a date to be determined.
In San Sebastián, it competes for the award for best Latin American film, against eleven other feature films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba and Ecuador
The prizes of the contest will be delivered this Saturday.