''Rara'' is a

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an film 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 ...

, and starring Julia Lübbert and

Mariana Loyola Mariana Francisca Loyola Ruz (Santiago, 2 August 1975) is a Chilean theater, film, and television actress. Loyola began to work regularly in the theater until in 2001 she was cast in the telenovela '' Amores de mercado''. That same year she ma ...

. It is the first feature film produced by Manufactura de Películas, based in

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, and co-produced by Le Tiro Cine, from

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. ''Rara'' won the Jury Prize at the

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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.

Cast

* Julia Lübbert as Sara * Emilia Ossandón as Catalina *

as Paula * Agustina Muñoz as Lía * Daniel Muñoz as Víctor *

Sigrid Alegría Sigrid Alegría Conrads (born 18 June 1974) is a Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a lon ...

as Nicole *

Coca Guazzini Silvia Beatriz Guazzini Monsalve (born December 22, 1953 in Santiago), best known as Coca Guazzini, is a Chilean television, theatre and film actress. Guazzini studied theatre at Universidad de Chile. She appeared in some popular Chilean telenov ...

as Icha * Enrique Bustamante as school counselor * Luz Croxatto as Eugenia *

Claudia Celedón Claudia Irene Celedón Ureta (born 15 August 1966) is a Chilean television, film, and theater actress. She is the winner of an Altazor Award for best theater actress for her role in the play ''Mujer gallina'', and was awarded at the Cartagena Int ...

as Ximena * Micaela Cristi as Pancha * Nicolás Vigneaux as Julián

Awards

References

External links

* {{IFFI Award for Best Debut Film of a Director, state=collapsed 2016 films Argentine comedy films Argentine LGBT-related films Chilean comedy films Chilean LGBT-related films 2010s Spanish-language films 2016 LGBT-related films Chilean coming-of-age films Argentine coming-of-age films LGBT-related comedy films LGBT-related coming-of-age films 2010s Argentine films 2010s Chilean films