{"id":192480,"date":"2025-09-01T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192480\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:46:09","slug":"vanilla-film-by-mayra-hermosillo-on-family-identity-venice-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192480\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Vanilla’ Film by Mayra Hermosillo on Family, Identity: Venice Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMexico in the late 1980s. The eight-year-old Roberta watches her family of seven women fight to save their home from mounting debt. It is a struggle that will reshape how she sees herself and those around her. This is the premise of Vanilla (Vainilla), the feature directorial debut by writer-director Mayra Hermosillo, an actress you may know from Netflix\u2019s Narcos: Mexico<\/a> or Amat Escalante\u2019s Lost in the Night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWorld premiering Wednesday, Sept. 3, in the Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days) lineup, a sidebar of the Venice International Film Festival<\/a>, the ensemble cast includes Aurora D\u00e1vila, Mar\u00eda Castell\u00e1, Natalia Plascencia, Paloma Petra, Rosy Rojas, Fernanda Baca and Lola Ochoa.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cinematography is courtesy of Jessica Villamil, with Sonia S\u00e1nchez Carrasco handling editing. The producers are Stacy Perskie (Bardo, Spectre), Karla Luna Cant\u00fa, Andrea Porras Madero and Paloma Petra. Bendita Film Sale<\/a>s is handling world sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on personal experiences and set in a nontraditional, all-female, multigenerational household, Vanilla is about \u201cthe difficult process of breaking free from the limitations of inherited social expectations of women,\u201d highlights a description of the movie. As such, it is \u201ca deeply sensitive exploration of identity, family, and the experience of womanhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe filmmaker tapped into her personal and professional experience for Vanilla. \u201cI\u2019ve had the privilege of learning from filmmakers whose work encouraged me to find my own voice as a writer and director,\u201d says Hermosillo. \u201cThat journey led me to\u00a0Vanilla, a story rooted in my childhood in northern Mexico. I grew up in a nontraditional home, and although it felt normal to me, the conservative community around us didn\u2019t see it that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continues: \u201cThe film follows Roberta, a young girl shaped by this environment, who believes she can somehow fix her family\u2019s situation. It\u2019s a story about growing up too soon, about how shame and love intertwine, and how identity is formed when you live outside the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tVanilla<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Venice Days<\/p>\n

\n\tConcludes Hermosillo: \u201cRather than criticize tradition,\u00a0Vanilla\u00a0asks what it means to belong, and how we judge lives different from our own. Making this film in my hometown is my way of honoring where I come from, while opening the door for other stories that explore family, gender and resilience in places often overlooked by cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer for Vanilla that THR can exclusively present below hints at how the movie features all sorts, including signs of financial challenges, a contest featuring a beach holiday as a prize, smiles, dancing, the beach, ice cream.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico in the late 1980s. The eight-year-old Roberta watches her family of seven women fight to save their…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,1801,53,67,132,68,101337,30989],"class_list":{"0":"post-192480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-international","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-venice-2025","15":"tag-venice-film-festival"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115131239232655149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}