Identifying Features is a drama film from Mexico and Spain, where Fernanda Valadez is the director and writer of the movie. A woman who sets out on a risky quest to locate her only son is at the ...

As if responding to the pair of notable December releases with surrogate father-daughter storylines – Paul Greengrass’s “News of the World” and George Clooney’s “Midnight Sky” – Mexican filmmaker ...

An almost David Lynchian exercise in anxiety, fear and dread, “Identifying Features,” a modest and yet visually striking film about a mother searching for her lost son, launches director-co-writer ...

Numbers have a way of slicing through to the heart of things. And while they can often be manipulated by treacherous agendas, examining certain statistics has a particular way of jolting one out of ...

Outspoken filmmaking duo Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero don’t believe Mexican storytellers have the luxury of creating apolitically. Not at a moment in history when thousands disappear or are ...

Premiering in January to a Sundance Dramatic World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, “Sujo” from “Identifying Features” filmmakers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez has expanded its global reach, closing ...