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SALÓN DE BELLEZA

by Nathalia Acevedo

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.

original title: Salón de belleza
country: Mexico, France
sales agent: The Pool Films
year: 2026
genre: fiction
directed by: Nathalia Acevedo
film run: 110’
screenplay: Nathalia Acevedo, Diego Sepúlveda
cast: Sam Louwyck, Erwan Kepoa Falé
cinematography by: Balthazar Lab
film editing: Olivia Neergaard-Holm
art director: Nathan Parker
music: Lucy Railton
producer: Paulina Valencia, Matthew Porterfield
co-producer: Christian Évora, Marco Tulio Pires
production: Farol, Kintsugi Cine (MX)

Photogallery 08/09/2026: Venice 2026 - Salón de belleza

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Nathalia Acevedo
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