El cuarto desnudo (The Naked Room)
by Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda
Mexico, 2013
synopsis
The Naked Room offers a vision of a world without leaving a single space: the room where doctors visits take place in a children´s hospital in Mexico City. Listening to children and their parents during consultations allows us to have a more profound and extreme vision of the social reality of Mexico. But it is not only a portrait of Mexico, through the fragility of these children, the film explores the fragility of human condition.
about the directors
Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda graduated in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and studied Screenwriting at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City. In Mexico, she has directed three documentary films: La cuerda floja (2009), El cuarto desnudo (the most awarded Mexican documentary of 2014), and Una corriente salvaje (2018). She also directed her first fiction feature, El Guardián, which will premiere at the Morelia Film Festival in 2025.
Her work has been presented and awarded at some of the world’s most important documentary film festivals, including IDFA, Visions du Réel, True/False, Cinéma du Réel, BAFICI, Viennale, Sheffield, Plus Camerimage, and Morelia, among others. Thanks to her ability to “closely observe the most intimate relationships of others,” Nuria received the True Vision Award in 2019 for her achievements in nonfiction cinema. She is currently developing her second fiction feature, El grupo.
