Competition - Giornate degli Autori

SALÓN DE BELLEZA

Nathalia Acevedo

With

Sam Louwyck (El Individuo), Erwan Kepoa Falé (Juan)

Country

Mexico, France

Duration

110′

Language

SCREENINGS

Press screening: Wednesday 2 September – 14:00 – Sala Perla
Official screening: Tuesday 8 September – 16:30 – Sala Perla (followed by Q&A)
Additional screening: Friday 11 September – 22:00 – Sala Corinto

PRESS CONFERENCE

N/A

TALENTS

available in Venice: TBA

WORLD SALES

The Pool Films

SYNOPSIS

In an unnamed city, a beauty salon becomes a space of passage where those cast out gather, suspended between life and death. At its center is the Individuo, a solitary presence who tends to this place without any promises or explanation. The film unfolds as time and place dissolve into one another. What is lived, remembered, and imagined coexists in a continuous movement, where meaning emerges through ritual, drifting, and return. Within this space, beauty and death are intertwined. The salon becomes a threshold where presence and memory fade and reappear, and where the boundaries between reality and vision begin to loosen. The outside world remains fractured, its tensions quietly permeating the space. As everything shifts, what emerges is a passage: a meditation on the fragility of existence. (adapted from Mario Bellatin’s acclaimed novel)

Distribution

PRODUCTION

KINTSUGI CINE (Mexico)
FAROL (France)

CO-PRODUCTION