''Rara'' is a 2016 Chilean-Argentine
coming-of-age
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comedy film
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directed by Pepa San Martín, written by
Alicia Scherson
Alicia Scherson (born 1974 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Biography
Scherson studied filmmaking in the Escuela de Cine de Cuba and in 1999 received a Fulbright Scholarship to study for a Master of ...
, and starring Julia Lübbert and
Mariana Loyola. It is the first feature film produced by Manufactura de Películas, based in
Santiago
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, and co-produced by Le Tiro Cine, from
Buenos Aires
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.
''Rara'' won the Jury Prize at the
Berlin Film Festival
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in 2016,
and received an Horizontes Latinos Award at the 64th edition of the
San Sebastian Film Festival in 2016.
Plot
Sara, a 13-year-old girl, faces challenges with school, boys, hiding a secret from her best friend, and her parents quarreling. She has no problems with her mother living with another woman, even if her father does not agree.
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Cast
* Julia Lübbert as Sara
* Emilia Ossandón as Catalina
* Mariana Loyola as Paula
* Agustina Muñoz as Lía
* Daniel Muñoz as Víctor
* Sigrid Alegría
Sigrid Alegría Conrads (born 18 June 1974) is a Chilean film and television actress.
Alegría began her acting debut in the Televisión Nacional de Chile, TVN soap opera ''Borrón y cuenta nueva (TV series), Borrón y cuenta nueva'' in 1998, pl ...
as Nicole
* Coca Guazzini as Icha
* Enrique Bustamante as school counselor
* Luz Croxatto as Eugenia
* Claudia Celedón as Ximena
* Micaela Cristi as Pancha
* Nicolás Vigneaux
Nicolás Vigneaux Poirot (born March 8, 1997, in Santiago) is an actor known by his first television series Mujeres de lujo who played Moses. also had a cameo in the TV series ''Infiltradas'' on Chilevisión
Chilevisión (often abbreviated as ...
as Julián
Awards
References
External links
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{{IFFI Award for Best Debut Film of a Director, state=collapsed
2016 films
Argentine comedy films
Argentine LGBTQ-related films
Chilean comedy films
Chilean LGBTQ-related films
2010s Spanish-language films
2016 LGBTQ-related films
Chilean coming-of-age films
Argentine coming-of-age films
LGBTQ-related coming-of-age comedy films
2010s Argentine films
2010s Chilean films