Built with Daylight
Director
Ana Velasco
Mexico City / Berlin
Films, 20252023

Ana Velasco

Slow cinema for the unlit hour.

No. 01

A Country of Salt

2025
Director / Writer · Short film · 16mm
Coastline at dawn
Salt flats, low tide
Figure in fog
Headlights, dawn road

A salt harvester walks the coastline at dawn, recounting the disappearance of her brother to the sea.

short · 16mm
No. 02

Hours Without Names

2023
Director · Documentary · 28 min
City lights, after midnight
Stage glow, late hour
Road, last light

Night shift workers at a 24-hour Mexico City bakery. Locarno Pardi di Domani, 2023.

documentary

Biography

Mexico City-born director working between fiction and documentary. Selected at Cannes Critics' Week, Locarno, and Rotterdam. Currently in development on her first feature, A Country of Salt.