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Everything Else Is Noise

Forum 2026
© Nicolás Pereda
In Mexico, Tere – musician and composer – opens her home to a musician friend’s television interview. To soothe her guest’s nerves, Tere tells an eccentric and charming story about how her extraordinarily acute sense of smell has inspired her compositions. But no sooner does the interview with two journalists begin than it loses the flow, falters and slips out of rhythm: outside noises seep in, machines suddenly start playing up – and Tere’s daughter, a young woman armed with refreshing irony and ruthless reality checks, bursts into the scene. Mother and daughter, both razor-sharp and quick-witted, form a tender alliance that gleefully brings the hypocrisy of the art world crashing down. They expose name-dropping and snobbish posturing, mock sexism and instead celebrate an honest, unpretentious sobriety – and the clear-eyed awareness of two women living close to, yet firmly outside, the coveted power centre of fame. In minimalist form, this absurdly comic chamber piece proves that the extraordinary hides in the everyday – and that noise and music are inseparable parts of it.
by Nicolás Pereda (Director, Screenplay), Juan Francisco Maldonado (Screenplay)
with Teresita Sánchez, Rosa Estela Juárez Vargas, Luisa Pardo, Lázaro G. Rodríguez, Francisco Barreiro, José Rodríguez López Mexico / Germany / Canada 2026 Spanish 71' Colour World premiere

With

  • Teresita Sánchez
  • Rosa Estela Juárez Vargas
  • Luisa Pardo
  • Lázaro G. Rodríguez
  • Francisco Barreiro
  • José Rodríguez López

Crew

Director Nicolás Pereda
Screenplay Juan Francisco Maldonado, Nicolás Pereda
Cinematography Nicolás Pereda
Editing Nicolás Pereda
Music Violeta García
Sound Design Guido Berenblum, Gerardo Kalmar
Producer Catalina Pereda
Co-Producer Kristina Konrad

Produced by

En Chinga Producciones

CDMX, Mexico

Co-produced by

weltfilm

Berlin, Germany

Photos

Nicolás Pereda

© Oscar Fernández Orengo

Nicolás Pereda, born 1982, combines fiction and documentary techniques to explore the everyday. His work has been featured in more than 30 retrospectives and screened at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, and Venice, as well as in museums including the Reina Sofía and MoMA.

Filmography

2007 ¿Dónde están sus historias? (Where Are Their Stories) 2008 Entrevista con la tierra (Interview with the Earth); short film 2009 Juntos (Together) · Perpetuum Mobile (Perpetual Mobile) 2010 Todo, en fin, el silencio lo ocupaba (All Things Were Now Overtaken By Silence) · Verano de Goliat (Summer of Goliath) 2012 Los mejores temas (Greatest Hits) 2013 Matar extraños (Killing Strangers); co-directed by Jacob Secher Schulsinger, Berlinale Forum 2013 · El palacio (The Palace); short film 2014 Los ausentes (The Absent) 2015 Minotauro; short film 2016 Historias de dos que soñaron (Tales of Two Who Dreamt); co-directed by Andrea Bussmann, Berlinale Forum 2016 2019 Mi piel, luminosa (My Skin, Luminous); short film, co-directed by Gabino Rodríguez 2020 Flora y fauna (Fauna) 2021 Querida Chantal (Dear Chantal); short film 2022 Flora; short film 2024 Lázaro de noche (Lázaro at Night) 2025 Cobre (Copper) 2026 Everything Else is Noise

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026