Epitaph will have its Latin American premiere at Fotogenia in Mexico City, Nov 20-28, 2026, as part of the avant garde feature film section.
Fotogenia is a film festival held in the heart of Mexico City that celebrates cinema itself, experimentation with its nature, formats, genres, narrative, projection spaces, and all the freedom to explore the audiovisual image without restriction.
When personal histories become embedded within broader temporal and geographic dimensions, images and their localities may be understood as media that render the past visible—a testimony to existence itself. In Epitaph, Cecilia Araneda returns to her long-estranged homeland, eco-processing 16mm film with leaves and fruit gathered around her ancestral home. The flickering, scratched celluloid of its decaying house becomes a medium of invocation, a spectral device that conjures memory. Together with archival and found materials, it weaves a lament for her family’s past and the vanishing landscapes of home. / Beijing International Short Film Festival Read more…