Alma & esperanza is the story of a girl and her grandmother who meet in a moment of grief. Alma is a ten-year old girl living in the united states. Esperanza is her 75 year old grandmother living in an indigenous community in the mexican mountains. The girl and her grandmother have never met before. But one day, esperanza receives a devastating phone call. Alma has lost her mother and will travel to her grandmother’s village. The girl and her grandmother have no common language and are not able to communicate. Nevertheless they are able to find closeness without words.

biografia

Itandehui Jansen (1976 Oaxaca, Mexico) studied film directing at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. She was selected for different international training programs, such as Incubadora (Guanajuato International Film Festival), the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Binger Film Lab. She has directed several documentaries and short films , which screened at international festivals such as the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), the Guadalajara International Film Festival, the Morelia International Film Festival, and many others. Her short film The Last Council received the Special Jury Award at the Viña del Mar International Film Festival. She has also worked as a film lecturer at different universities in the Netherlands. She is currently working on her first feature film God wasn’t there (Dios No Estaba Ahí).

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