Directed by Lina Rodriguez

Directed by Lina Rodriguez

11 Episodes

The search for identity is at the core of Colombian-Canadian director Lina Rodriguez’s intimate, richly impressionistic films. Informed by her own immigrant experience, her narrative features like SO MUCH TENDERNESS and THIS TIME TOMORROW and her acclaimed documentary MY TWO VOICES capture women in the process of discovering themselves as they wrestle with feelings of cultural displacement, fraught family ties, past traumas, and the social expectations that shape their lives. Her formally adventurous framing, editing, and sound design give sensorially textured expression to the complex psychic landscapes she maps.

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Directed by Lina Rodriguez
  • Lina Rodriguez Interview

    Episode 1

    This interview with director Lina Rodriguez was recorded in 2023.

  • Señoritas

    Episode 2

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2013 • Canda, Colombia
    Starring María Serrano, Clara Monroy, Angela Katherine Laverde

    Lina Rodriguez’s feature debut is a subtle, deeply intimate examination of the way one young woman navigates the daunting terrain of sex, desire, and identity.​ Alejandra (María Ser...

  • This Time Tomorrow

    Episode 3

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2016 • Canada
    Starring Laura Osma, Maruia Shelton, Francisco Zaldua

    Bright and beautiful, seventeen-year-old Adelaida (Laura Osma) lives with her parents Lena (Maruia Shelton), an event planner, and Francisco (Francisco Zaldua), a sculptor and art teacher. Together, ...

  • CINÉPISTOLAIRE: Episode 2

    Episode 4

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez and Jorge Lozano • 2022 • Canada

    This lyrical “filmed correspondence” between Colombian Canadian directors Lina Rodriguez and Jorge Lozano explores the materials of cinema itself.

  • My Two Voices

    Episode 5

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2022 • Canada
    Starring Ana Garay Kostic, Claudia Montoya, Marinela Piedrahita

    A poetic exploration of the fluid nature of identity, MY TWO VOICES introduces us to Ana, Claudia, and Marinela, three Latin American women who share their intimate experiences of immigrati...

  • So Much Tenderness

    Episode 6

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2022 • Canada
    Starring Noëlle Schonwald, Natalia Aranguren, Deragh Campbell

    This rich, complex portrait of the immigrant experience follows Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald), a Colombian environmental lawyer who is forced to flee her native country when her husband is murder...

  • Convergences and Re-Encounters

    Episode 7

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2008 • Canada

    Part of a series of experimental short films by Lina Rodriguez exploring her sensorial relationship to tourist sites and how their history can be perceived, CONVERGENCES AND RE-ENCOUNTERS is a collection of impressions of an afternoon at the labyrinthin...

  • Einschnitte

    Episode 8

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2010 • Canda, Austria

    Part of a series of experimental short films by Lina Rodriguez exploring her sensorial relationship to tourist sites and how their history can be perceived, EINSCHNITTE is a close study of Viennese statues that subtly reveals the complex past th...

  • Protocol

    Episode 9

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2011 • Canada, Colombia

    Part of a series of experimental short films by Lina Rodriguez exploring her sensorial relationship to tourist sites and how their history can be perceived, PROTOCOL is a glimpse of the sixteenth-century fortress walls of the Castillo San Feli...

  • Ante mis ojos

    Episode 10

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2018 • Colombia

    Part of a series of experimental short films by Lina Rodriguez exploring her sensorial relationship to tourist sites and how their history can be perceived, ANTE MIS OJOS (“Before My Eyes”) is an impressionistic study of Colombia’s Lake Guatavita, a s...

  • Aquí y allá

    Episode 11

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2019 • Colombia

    A poetic reflection on family as an emotional system that operates across generations, AQUÍ Y ALLÁ (“Here and There”) focuses on the passing of time, the possibilities of remembering, and the construction of space as an ongoing historical and subjecti...