At the Edge of the Volcano
Mexico, France, 21 mins, Digital
Two middle-aged couples travel together to a remote island. As bad news arrive from inland, the world around them begins to collapse and their relationships will soon follow suit.
Director: Jorge Granados Ross
Writer: Melik Kuru and Jorge Granados Ross
Producer: Mariana Saffon, Jorge Granados Ross, Antonio Salume & Oscar Palomar
Director of Photography: Fernando Hernandez Garcia
Editor: Andrew Stephen Lee
Production Designer: Flor Hart
Composer: Matthias Dewilde
Cast: Jacobo Lieberman, Diana Sedano, Paulette Hernández, Cristian Magaloni
Contact: Jorge Granados Ross, jorge.ross@olympiccrew.mx
Program B
Friday, May 15, 9 PM
About the Writer/Director
Jorge Granados Ross is a Mexican filmmaker. He holds an MFA in Film Directing and Screenwriting from Columbia University (2021), where he was awarded the International Student Fellowship by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Milena Jelinek Memorial Screenwriting Award.
His short film Some Ruins was selected for the official competition at the 2019 Morelia International Film Festival. As a producer, his work includes Entre tú y Milagros, directed by Mariana Saffon, which received the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, and the animated short Louis I: King of the Sheep by Markus Wulf, presented at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2022.
His most recent short film, At the Edge of the Volcano, has screened at POFF Shorts, Bogoshorts, Brest, Dijon, and the Morelia International Film Festival, where it received a Special Mention Award, and has been invited to screen at the 2026 Semaine de la Critique at Cannes.
He is currently developing his first feature film.
About the Writer
Melik Kuru, born in 1989, left architecture studies before graduating at the top of his class from Koc University’s Media and Visual Arts program and later completing an MFA in Film at Columbia University.
His earlier short film, "We Are a Family,” premiered at the Antalya Film Festival and received Jury Selects and Audience awards at the Columbia University Film Festival. His projects have appeared in international industry platforms such as CineLink, Connecting Cottbus, and Meetings on the Bridge.
Beyond directing, he edited Hesitation Wound, which premiered in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival. His first feature-length film, "DUMP OF UNTITLED PIECES," has played at multiple international film festivals such as Slamdance and POFF.
About the Producer
Mariana Saffon is a Colombian Writer/Director. Her latest short film, Entre tú y Milagros, won the Orizzonti Short Film award at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020, the Best Short Film Award at the Hamptons Film Festival, and the DGA Jury Award for Best Latino Director for the East Coast, among many others. The short film is now featured in The New Yorker Magazine.
She is a Columbia University MFA Graduate, recipient of the Milos Forman Directing Fellowship, and is currently writing her first feature, Mar de Leva, which will soon be shot in Bogotá, Colombia.
