Mariana Rondón

Directing

Mariana Rondón

Born

1966-05-08 (60)

Place of birth

Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Mariana Rondón (1966, Barquisimeto) is a Venezuelan cinema director, screenwriter, producer and visual artist. She studied at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (San Antonio de los Baños International School), in Cuba, and later animation in France. In 1990 she created the company Sudaca Films (Lima/Caracas).

Known for

It Would Be Night in Caracas poster
7.2

While struggling to withstand the chaos of modern Venezuela, Adelaida sees a chance to survive—and takes it: leaving everything behind, even her own name. In a land with no future, her only way out is to become someone else.

It Would Be Night in Caracas

2025

At Midnight and a Half poster
6.8

A huge wave is about to destroy the city. Many people leave in panic, only a few remain in the lonely streets. Among them are SEBASTIAN, a skeptical and irresolute young loner; ANA, a woman who seeks in others the passion she can’t live; and an apocalyptic GIRL. They turn the city into a games board where the stakes are love and the end of the world.

At Midnight and a Half

1999

Calle 22 poster
NR

A street, two public phones; a couple, Ana and Manuel. Manuel has decided to play a joke with Ana, so he makes dirty telephone calls to her, changing his voice. To his surprise, Ana is seduced by the unknown voice.

Calle 22

1994

Contactado poster
5.0

An aging self-proclaimed prophet who revisits his past as a spiritual guru after an eager young follower entices him to return to preaching.

Contactado

2020

Eggshells poster
NR

A woman sells tickets in an art-decó cinema, as voices from a passionate melodrama float through the foyer, disembodied. The proyection’s assistant, reflected and distorted in a mirror, becomes the focus of her romantic dreams. When the mirror shatters, the film moves to an inevitable tragic conclusion.

Eggshells

1992

Bad Hair poster
6.6

A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.

Bad Hair

2014

Behind the camera

It Would Be Night in Caracas poster
7.2

While struggling to withstand the chaos of modern Venezuela, Adelaida sees a chance to survive—and takes it: leaving everything behind, even her own name. In a land with no future, her only way out is to become someone else.

It Would Be Night in Caracas

2025

It Would Be Night in Caracas poster
7.2

While struggling to withstand the chaos of modern Venezuela, Adelaida sees a chance to survive—and takes it: leaving everything behind, even her own name. In a land with no future, her only way out is to become someone else.

It Would Be Night in Caracas

2025

At Midnight and a Half poster
6.8

A huge wave is about to destroy the city. Many people leave in panic, only a few remain in the lonely streets. Among them are SEBASTIAN, a skeptical and irresolute young loner; ANA, a woman who seeks in others the passion she can’t live; and an apocalyptic GIRL. They turn the city into a games board where the stakes are love and the end of the world.

At Midnight and a Half

1999

At Midnight and a Half poster
6.8

A huge wave is about to destroy the city. Many people leave in panic, only a few remain in the lonely streets. Among them are SEBASTIAN, a skeptical and irresolute young loner; ANA, a woman who seeks in others the passion she can’t live; and an apocalyptic GIRL. They turn the city into a games board where the stakes are love and the end of the world.

At Midnight and a Half

1999

At Midnight and a Half poster
6.8

A huge wave is about to destroy the city. Many people leave in panic, only a few remain in the lonely streets. Among them are SEBASTIAN, a skeptical and irresolute young loner; ANA, a woman who seeks in others the passion she can’t live; and an apocalyptic GIRL. They turn the city into a games board where the stakes are love and the end of the world.

At Midnight and a Half

1999

Calle 22 poster
NR

A street, two public phones; a couple, Ana and Manuel. Manuel has decided to play a joke with Ana, so he makes dirty telephone calls to her, changing his voice. To his surprise, Ana is seduced by the unknown voice.

Calle 22

1994

Calle 22 poster
NR

A street, two public phones; a couple, Ana and Manuel. Manuel has decided to play a joke with Ana, so he makes dirty telephone calls to her, changing his voice. To his surprise, Ana is seduced by the unknown voice.

Calle 22

1994

Contactado poster
5.0

An aging self-proclaimed prophet who revisits his past as a spiritual guru after an eager young follower entices him to return to preaching.

Contactado

2020

Contactado poster
5.0

An aging self-proclaimed prophet who revisits his past as a spiritual guru after an eager young follower entices him to return to preaching.

Contactado

2020

Eggshells poster
NR

A woman sells tickets in an art-decó cinema, as voices from a passionate melodrama float through the foyer, disembodied. The proyection’s assistant, reflected and distorted in a mirror, becomes the focus of her romantic dreams. When the mirror shatters, the film moves to an inevitable tragic conclusion.

Eggshells

1992

Eggshells poster
NR

A woman sells tickets in an art-decó cinema, as voices from a passionate melodrama float through the foyer, disembodied. The proyection’s assistant, reflected and distorted in a mirror, becomes the focus of her romantic dreams. When the mirror shatters, the film moves to an inevitable tragic conclusion.

Eggshells

1992

Bad Hair poster
6.6

A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.

Bad Hair

2014

Bad Hair poster
6.6

A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.

Bad Hair

2014

Postcards from Leningrad poster
4.4

During the armed uprisings of the sixties in Venezuela, a young guerrilla woman has to give birth in secret. To her surprise, her daughter is the first to be born on Mother's Day and photos appear in the press. Since then, both have to flee. Disguises, false names are the hiding places and the daily life of CHICA, the narrator of this story. Together with her cousin TEO, they reinvent the adventures of their guerrilla fathers, building a fantastic labyrinth of superheroes and strategies around armed subversion, where you never know where reality or madness begins. But the children's game cannot hide the death, torture, accusations and betrayals that live inside the guerrilla.

Postcards from Leningrad

2007

Postcards from Leningrad poster
4.4

During the armed uprisings of the sixties in Venezuela, a young guerrilla woman has to give birth in secret. To her surprise, her daughter is the first to be born on Mother's Day and photos appear in the press. Since then, both have to flee. Disguises, false names are the hiding places and the daily life of CHICA, the narrator of this story. Together with her cousin TEO, they reinvent the adventures of their guerrilla fathers, building a fantastic labyrinth of superheroes and strategies around armed subversion, where you never know where reality or madness begins. But the children's game cannot hide the death, torture, accusations and betrayals that live inside the guerrilla.

Postcards from Leningrad

2007

Boca Chica poster
NR

Twelve-year-old Desi is in pursuit of becoming a famous singer. As Desi braces to leave her hometown, she's met with deep-seated secrets that have long tormented her family and their coastal Dominican community.

Boca Chica

2024

Bodas de oro poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bodas de oro

2005

Zafari poster
6.0

In a small zoo, the arrival of the hippopotamus Zafari is celebrated by neighbours of opposing social classes. Ana, Edgar and their son Bruno watch all the action from the windows of their decadent high-class building. Amidst a chaos of food, water and electricity shortages, the family has to solve everyday problems and the lack of basic needs while trying to find a solution to escape. Ana scavenges for food in the abandoned apartments, but strange noises in the dark corridors frighten her more and more. In a world that has become wild, Zafari is the only one who still has enough to eat.

Zafari

2025

Zafari poster
6.0

In a small zoo, the arrival of the hippopotamus Zafari is celebrated by neighbours of opposing social classes. Ana, Edgar and their son Bruno watch all the action from the windows of their decadent high-class building. Amidst a chaos of food, water and electricity shortages, the family has to solve everyday problems and the lack of basic needs while trying to find a solution to escape. Ana scavenges for food in the abandoned apartments, but strange noises in the dark corridors frighten her more and more. In a world that has become wild, Zafari is the only one who still has enough to eat.

Zafari

2025

The Kid Who Lies poster
6.7

A 13-year-old kid starts a journey along the Venezuelan coast and, in order to survive, he captivates people by constantly reinventing his own story in the mudslide. His true past, however, will gradually become clearer. Ten years ago the mudslide took his mother, now he thinks he can find her. He has a difficult road ahead of him, but there is also a world yet to be discovered.

The Kid Who Lies

2011

No artwork available
NR

A docu-fiction hybrid following two lead actors from the 2013 drama Bad Hair: Sam Lange who played the child Junior and the actress who played his mother, Samantha Castillo. Both were forced to leave Venezuela.

Looking for Sam

No artwork available
NR

A docu-fiction hybrid following two lead actors from the 2013 drama Bad Hair: Sam Lange who played the child Junior and the actress who played his mother, Samantha Castillo. Both were forced to leave Venezuela.

Looking for Sam