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Karen

Sinopsis

Fiction. Karen is an intimate portrayal of last period in Africa of the Danish settler and writer Karen Blixen. It focuses in her particular relationship with her Somali servant Farah Aden. A strange friendship in which differences that seem insurmountable are diluted before an ancestral understanding.


María Pérez Sanz

From a very young age, María writes and directs short films screened and awarded at numerous festivals and museums around the world. She was present at the 7th edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus and at the 8th edition of the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Festival. In 2015 she won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film at the Jameson Notodofilmfest with the short film Exercise 2: FictionMalpartida Fluxus Village was her first feature film.The film, dedicated to the German artist Wolf Vostell and his Fluxus Museum in the small Extremaduran town of Malpartida de Cáceres. The film toured more than 30 international festivals and won important awards. María has been highlighted as a new emerging talent by Variety magazine at the last Cannes Film Festival. Karen is her second feature film.


Presentation with the director María Pérez Sanz and the co-director of the festival.


Spanish Authors Competition

Friday, November 5th, 2021. 9 pm
Sala Berlanga de la fundación SGAE

Spanish Female Authors Competition


Year of Production: 2020


Running Time: 63’


Country: Spain


Language: Spanish


Director: María Pérez Sanz


Cast: Christina Rosenvinge, Alito Rodgers Jr. and Isabelle Stoffel


Producers: Ignacio Salazar-Simpson and Bárbara Gut


Production Companies: Redantfilms and Obra la belleza AIE


International Sales:  Begin Again


Main Festivals and Awards: Selected at the Seville Festival and premiered at the Madrid Independent Film Festival Márgenes.


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