María Salafranca is a Mexican director born in 1997. She graduated in Documentary Direction from the International School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, in 2024. Her short films have screened and won awards at various film festivals in the Caribbean, the US, and Europe. Photo by Valerie Baeriswyl.
On the side of the road, in a rural Cuban town, stands a funeral home in which Maurilio and Fidela, partners in work as in life, have been preparing corpses for the past seventeen years. With quietly affectionate humour, Servicio necrológico para usted takes us on an offbeat tour of this discreet establishment where death and love intertwine on a daily basis.
Servicio Necrológico Para Usted will play as part of the Shorts Block: Just a Dream, Like All Others
