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.
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: Fiction. Malpartida 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.
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.
