El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place)
by Tatiana Huezo
Mexico/El Salvador, 2011
streaming regions: GLOBAL with some exceptions
This film is available for free in all of Latin America
synopsis
On the surface El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place) is the story of Cinquera, a village literally wiped off the official map during El Salvador’s 12-year civil war. But on a deeper level it is a story about the ability to rise, to rebuild and reinvent oneself after a tragedy. Holding the past and present in focus together, the film takes us to the tiny village nestled in the mountains amidst the humid Salvadoran jungle, while villagers, survivors of the war’s massacres, recount their journey home at war’s end. When they first returned their village no longer existed.
about the director
Born in Salvador and living in Mexico, Tatiana Huezo graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica film school. She also holds a Master’s in Documentary Filmmaking from Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University. She gained international renown with her first feature film, El lugar más pequeño, presented at Visions du Réel in 2011, where it won the Grand Prix for the Best Feature-length Film. The film was then programmed by more than 80 festivals around the world. After the short film Ausencias (2015), she directed Tempestad (2016), which was presented as a world premiere at the Berlinale. Over recent years, she has taught film in various international academic contexts and also written the book El Viaje, rutas y caminos andados para llegar a otro planeta, in which eight documentary filmmakers describe their creative processes. In 2021, she is unveiling her first fictional film, Noche de fuego.
