Sin Señas Particulares

The film is as much about the act of seeing and observing as it is about not seeing, about struggling to recognize that which might not clarify much at all.

Signals an exciting arrival by a much-needed voice.

This is a confident, accomplished and distinctive feature directorial debut, even if one can't help being exasperated that so little is learned about the relevant issues by watching it.

[An] impressive and quietly compelling debut feature from Fernanda Valadez.

...lets patient observation and careful framing do most of the talking.

Identifying Features feels like a fever-dream, with sequences that feel lifted from a Terrence Malick film.

"Identifying Features" strips away the politics and the ideologies surrounding the border, and leaves behind the white-hot emotions of one personal, painful story.

Mexican Fernanda Valadez's directing debut of offers a solidity, absent of concessions for the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]

Valadez weaves her tale, with a deft mastery and guile, into a nightmarish fever dream.

A masterpiece and an indispensable tale of violence and migration that portrays the harsh reality in Mexico.