Karakol

Karakol

Saula Benavente
Clara cannot accept her father's recent death: there has to be something else. Thus, seeking through papers, she finds signs that leads her to a remote lake in Tajikistan where she believes her father had another life. But once there, what is the use of revealing the deep secret of whom one loves? What's the point of revealing it? Does not striving to discover it respond only to her own pettiness? And she understands, building her own secret, that in everyone there is a very deep place, only for oneself.
Saula Benavente Universidad del Cine graduate. Her first works were as an assistant director and art director. In 2006, her screenplay El Cajón [The Coffin] won INCAA’s Opera Prima Competition and thus wrote, directed and produced her first film. From then on, interleaving some directing jobs, she began her career as a producer with Secuestro y muerte [Kidnapping and Death] (Rafael Filippelli, 2010). In 2011 she founds Salta Una Rana. The company first work was Viento Sur [South Wind] (Paz Encina, 2011) in co-production with Portugal; then the documentary Ante la Ley (Emiliano Jelicié, Pablo Klappenbach), the fictions Por un puñado de pelos [For a Handful of Hairs] (Néstor Montalbano, 2013) in co-production with Colombia; Angelita, la doctora (Helena Tritek, 2016), the Paraguayan co-productions Guaraní (Luis Zorraquín, 2016) and Mangoré (Luis Vera, 2015); Lua em Sagitario [Moon on Sagitarius](Marcia Paraíso, 2017) in co-production with Brazil.At the same time, Saula Benavente continued working on her own: she produced Cassandra (Inés de Oliveira Cézar, 2012), La utilidad del revistero [The Utility of a Magazine Rack] (Adriano Salgado, 2013) and La noche del lobo [The Night of the Wolf] (Diego Schipani, 2016).In 2015, together with Inés de Oliveira Cézar, she produced and directed Gule, Gule, crónica de un viaje [Gule Gule, Chronicles of a Journey], a documentary shot in France, Estonia and Finland. Between 2017 and 2018 he produced the films La otra piel [The Other Skin] and Baldío [Wasteland], both films by Inés de Oliveira Cézar. In 2018, she found the production company El Borde together with Albertina Carri and Diego Schipani, from where they developed the projects Tr e s [Three] (Diego Schipani, 2021), ¡Caigan las rosas blancas! [White Roses Fall!] (2021)and Los extraños de la montaña helada[The Strangers of the Cold Mountain] (2022) both projects by Carri and her next feature fiction Hungría a pie [Hungary on Foot] (2022). In 2020 they released their first two productions: Bernarda es la Patria [Bernarda is the Homeland] (Diego Schipani) and Karakol (Saula Benavente), shot in Argentina and Tajikistan.
  • Original title Karakol
  • Director Saula Benavente
  • Duration 93
  • Production year 2020
  • Category Feature Film
  • Subcategory Fiction
  • Gender Drama
  • Nationality Argentina
  • Producer El Borde
  • Dialogue language Spanish
  • Subtitle language English
  • Intérpretes Agustina Muñoz, Dominique Sanda, Soledad Silveyra, Santiago Fondevilla
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