Everything Else Is Noise
(Lo demás es ruido)
Nicolás Pereda
An intersection in Mexico City without traffic lights. Cars stop in the middle of the road, blocking other cars that try to find an empty spot to pass through. Bikes and pedestrians find their ways through the cars, speeding and slowing down to avoid hitting each other. Honks abound. And, on top of the chaos, a cello plays cacophonically. Such is the arresting, absurd and erratic opening scene of Everything Else is Noise, setting up the stage for an equally farcical, comic and surprisingly touching story.
The action takes place entirely inside the apartment of Tere, an accomplished cellist lending her place for a taped interview to be conducted for her friend Rosa, another composer. The two male interviewers are interrupted by Tere’s daughter Luisa, and so a cross-generational portrait of three women musicians emerges, while the interviewers try to figure out how to tell their story. With a simple setting, precise dialogue, and an ear for playing with sound, music, noise and silence, Pereda’s film is an often funny exploration of the myth-making processes behind how we tell stories about art and artists, and a deconstruction of the self-seriousness of high art.
2 May 2026
20:00 h, Mal Seh'n Kino
More information
| Direction | Nicolás Pereda |
| Country | Mexico |
| Production year | 2026 |
| Duration | 71 min |
| Language | Spanish |
| Language Version | OV with English Subs |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Production | Catalina Pereda |
| Production company | En Chinga Producciones |
| Co-production | weltfilm |
| Cast | Teresita Sánchez, Rosa Estela Juárez Vargas, Luisa Pardo, Lázaro G. Rodríguez, Francisco Barreiro |
| Director of Photography | Nicolás Pereda |
| Script | Nicolás Pereda, Juan Francisco Maldonado |
| Montage | Nicolás Pereda |
| Music | Violeta García |
Berlinale 2026
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PRE-FILM
Summer Trance Daydream at Castello di Rivara
A film sketch by Anja Czioska, shot and edited using a Bauer Super 8 camera on a hot summer’s day in a castle in Italy.
Quote: “My film sketches have no beginning and no end. They are flashes of time in the vacuum of an intense moment, captured by the camera and made visible in the projection, thus revealing my filmed, lived reality.”
Short/experimental film, Italy/Germany 2026, silent, black and white, 16mm, Director: Anja Czioska, Length: 6 mins.
WORLD PREMIERE
About the director
Nicolás Pereda was born in 1982 in Mexico City. He holds a Master of Arts in film directing from York University (Canada). He has made films and videos for several interdisciplinary plays, operas and dance pieces that have been performed in Mexico and Europe. His first feature film ¿Dónde están sus historias? was screened in festivals around the world and won French Critics Discovery Award at the Rencontres Cinemas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse. His films have been screened in some of the most prestigious film festivals including Cannes, Venice, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Vienna, and Edinburgh.
Press reviews
“In its generosity yet lack of big gestures, this female-focused classical music film represents the anti-Tár (Todd Field, 2022), lacking the verbosity of Field’s film — or Cate Blanchett’s performance — yet no less piercing in its examination of femininity in composition.” (Redmond Bacon for Journey Into Cinema)
“Everything Else is Noise no es solo un film tremendamente divertido, sino una obra sobre el cine, sobre el sonido, sobre la música, sobre los roles femeninos y sobre la masculinidad.” (Violeta Kovacsics para Otros Cines)
ACCOMPANYING SHORT FILM BY ANJA CZIOSKA
International Feature Film Program
