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/A graduate from Universidad Nacional de Colombia presented his film in the Berlin Film Festival

A graduate from Universidad Nacional de Colombia presented his film in the Berlin Film Festival

Bogotá N.° 38

  • Gabriel Rojas Vera, graduate from the Film & TV School of Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

  • Poster of the movie Karen llora en un bus, presented in the Berlin Film Festival.

Colombian director Gabriel Rojas Vera projected world exclusive his first film, called Karen llora en un bus (Karen cries in a bus), in the Berlin Film Festival, la Berlinale.

Rojas" first film had Frank Benítez as director assistant, John Fredy Parra as second assistant, Ramsés Benjumea as art director, Carlos Rincón as sound technician, and Alejandro Prieto as general producer, all of them from the Film & TV School of Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

This movie, which was filmed in Bogotá, is the story of Karen (played by Colombian actress Ángela Carrizosa), a 36 years old woman full of frustrations that, after ten years of marriage, decides to get divorced and find her own life.

The 98 minutes production participates in the German festival in Forum, a section for young films in which other Latin American productions are included: From Argentina, Ocio and Ausente, by Juan Villegas and Marco Berger, respectively; El mocito, by the Chilean director Marcela Said; and the Brazilian film Os residentes, by Tiago Mata Machado.

This film directed by Rojas, graduated from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2004, has already been selected among 97 projects by the San Sebastian Festival (Cataluña, Spain) to participate in the Cine en Construcción days.

Rojas mentioned that this is his master piece, which has a naturalist touch that portraits a woman that decides to face life by herself, after being economically and morally subjugated in her marriage.

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