Cosas insignificantes

Esmeralda (Paulina Gaitan) is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects objects lost, forgotten or discarded by people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.

About the director:
Andrea Martínez, is writer and director of Mexican-Canadian origin, who spent her childhood moving around North American and in 1994 graduated from the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Xochimilco, Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communication.  In 1997, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study film at the University of Southern California, where she wrote and directed her first short film, Durango Bride.

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Awards:
Audience Award, 2008 Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema