Wandering Girl
Niña errante
Directed by
Colombia, France, Spain
2018
82 min
- Spanish
Drama
Four half-sisters in Colombia meet for the first time at their father's funeral, and they travel across the country in order to prevent the youngest one from being taken in by social services.
Awards
- Grand Prix - Tallinn Black Nights FF
- Best Music Award - Tallinn Black Nights FF
Festivals
Credits
- Cast
- Sofía Paz Jara
- Carolina Ramirez
- Lina Marcela Sánchez
- María Camila Mejía
- Screenplay
- Rubén Mendoza
- Cinematography
- Sofía Oggioni Hatty
- Rubén Mendoza
- Editing
- Andrea Chignoli
- Rubén Mendoza
- Music
- Las Ánez
- Production
- CINE-SUD PROMOTION
Press
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Tenderly observed coming-of-age story, laced with careful insights about femininity and girlhood that are perhaps even more potent in being informed by Mendoza’s thoughtful outsider’s perspective.
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An atmosphere of witchy intimacy which makes stories about sisters particularly alluring.
Rubén Mendoza
Colombia
Runén Mendoza was born in 1980. He graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia's Film and Television Directing School. His studies there included an "Audiovisual Fiction Photography" workshop with Jacques Rubeirollis. Mendoza was one of the original founders of Dia Fragma with whom he has directed and produced several short films such as STATUES! (Honorable Thesis award from the Universidad Nacional), THE FENCE (Production Grant from the Cinemateca Distrital), ANIMAL KINGDOM, THE HOUSE BY THE WINDOW and THE HEART OF LA MANCHA (winner of a Production Grant from the Cinemateca Distrital in 2006). In 2010, his first full-length feature, THE STOPLIGHT SOCIETY, was released. His film WANDERING GIRL (2018) was awarded at several international film festivals.