Dana Rotberg

Directing

Dana Rotberg

Born

1959-08-11 (67)

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Dana Rotberg Rotschild (b. 11 Augiust 1960), better known simply as Dana Rotberg, is a Mexican film director and screenwriter based in Auckland, New Zealand. Born in Mexico City, she began her career with the documentary Elvira Luz Cruz, pena máxima (1985), followed by the feature Intimidad (1989). Her second feature, Ángel de fuego (1992), screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Rotberg later wrote and directed Otilia Rauda (2001), which received a Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award in 2000. She returned to international attention with White Lies (2013), adapted from Medicine Woman by Witi Ihimaera; the film won her the WIFTs International Vi…

Known for

Aguacuario poster
NR

To fullfill his responsibilities or defying his brother and embarking on a small three-wheeled adventure-that's the dilemma for a 10-year-old boy on a lonely coast in Mexico.

Aguacuario

2024

Ángel de fuego poster
5.9

The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.

Ángel de fuego

1992

Elvira Luz Cruz, Maximum Sentence poster
7.0

Elvira Luz Cruz was accused of killing her children. The filmmakers interview neighbours, the father, the mother-in-law, the psycologist and the lawyer that defended her.

Elvira Luz Cruz, Maximum Sentence

1985

White Lies poster
5.8

A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.

White Lies

2013

The Perfect Circle poster
7.0

An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.

The Perfect Circle

1997

Otilia Rauda poster
5.1

Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face.

Otilia Rauda

2002

Film credits

Behind the camera

Ángel de fuego poster
5.9

The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.

Ángel de fuego

1992

Ángel de fuego poster
5.9

The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.

Ángel de fuego

1992

Ángel de fuego poster
5.9

The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.

Ángel de fuego

1992

Elvira Luz Cruz, Maximum Sentence poster
7.0

Elvira Luz Cruz was accused of killing her children. The filmmakers interview neighbours, the father, the mother-in-law, the psycologist and the lawyer that defended her.

Elvira Luz Cruz, Maximum Sentence

1985

Elvira Luz Cruz, Maximum Sentence poster
7.0

Elvira Luz Cruz was accused of killing her children. The filmmakers interview neighbours, the father, the mother-in-law, the psycologist and the lawyer that defended her.

Elvira Luz Cruz, Maximum Sentence

1985

White Lies poster
5.8

A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.

White Lies

2013

White Lies poster
5.8

A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.

White Lies

2013

The Perfect Circle poster
7.0

An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.

The Perfect Circle

1997

Otilia Rauda poster
5.1

Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face.

Otilia Rauda

2002

Otilia Rauda poster
5.1

Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face.

Otilia Rauda

2002

Intimidad poster
4.8

A hen-pecked husband, so timid that he doesn’t even dare to drive a car, embarks on an affair with a much younger woman (played by Lisa Owen), who lives in the same apartment building as him and his wife. Eventually, he finds that the young woman is just as demanding as his difficult wife.

Intimidad

1989