Prolific Mexican-Canadian auteur Nicolás Pereda has delivered his sharpest and most amusing film yet with “Everything Else is Noise“, a sly, self-reflexive comedy of manners and mishaps involving a trio of women classical composers and musicians. – TIFF
Silence as solemnity, as ceremony, as devotion, as respect; as the threshold to the sacred, almost to religion. In his last film, “Everything Else is Noise“, Nicolás Pereda challenges this dogma and, on the contrary, embraces the involuntary sound, the one that disrupts
the recording, and builds around it an understated comedy about what resonates and what remains silent, about what we hear and what eludes us. – FID Marseille
Nicolás Pereda
MX, DE, CA 2026
Prix GNCR, FID Marseille, Prix Avant-Garde, BAFICI, Prix de Meilleur Film, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Best Ibero-American Feature, FICCI
71 min | Spanish
Nicolás Pereda
Born in 1982 in Mexico. Studied film at York University in Toronto. His work uses fictional and documentary techniques to explore everyday life through fragmented and elliptical narratives. Since 2007, he has worked with a regular cast of actors and actresses in his films.
Films (selection)
El palacio 2013 | Los ausentes 2014 | Minotauro 2015 | Historias de dos que soñaron 2016 | Mi piel, luminosa 2019 | Fauna 2020 (16. UX) | Lázaro de noche 2024 | Cobre 2025 (20. UX) | Everything Else Is Noise 2026
D+DOP+E: Nicolás Pereda | B: Juan Francisco Maldonado, Nicolás Pereda | SD: Guido Berenblum, Gerardo Kalmar | M: Violeta García | P: Catalina Pereda | WS: Moveria Film | With Teresita Sánchez, Rosa Estela Juárez Vargas, Luisa Pardo, Lázaro G. Rodríguez