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Courage

ALMA, an actress about to go blind and lose her job, receives her son ALEJANDRO, who wants to recover from alcoholism; the crises of each one will make them to re-known yourself as mother and son. A story based on the director's family.

  • Rubén Rojo Aura
    Director
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737906/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
  • Rubén Rojo Aura
    Writer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737906/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
  • César Tejeda
    Writer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7238777/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr2
  • Marco Antonio Salgado
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3475786/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  • Samantha Guillén
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4979215/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2
  • Raúl Berninches
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5792832/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr2
  • Camila Ibarra de la Peña
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9005292/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
  • Adrián Bazán Zamudio
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9021986/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr9
  • Javier Meza
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7850367/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr6
  • Peter Keydel
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1622249/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr5
  • Rubén Rojo Aura
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737906/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
  • Marta Aura
    Key Cast
    "Alma"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042144/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t1
  • Simón Guevara
    Key Cast
    "Alejandro"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0346491/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2
  • Fernando Becerril
    Key Cast
    "Elejalde"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064933/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t3
  • Esteban Soberanes
    Key Cast
    "Pato"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064933/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t3
  • Gris Jordana
    Cinematography
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1966322/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr10
  • Ariadna Ribas
    Film Editing
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4848962/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr11
  • Rubén Rojo Aura
    Film Editing
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737906/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
  • Rodrigo Castillo Filomarino
    Original Music
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5832902/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  • Antonino Isordia Llamazares
    Sound
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411423/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr21
  • Odin Acosta
    Sound Design
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2941741/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Coraje
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 30 minutes 12 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 7, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    480,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Los Cabos Goes to Cannes / Marche du Film & Los Cabos Film Festival
    Cannes
    France
    May 19, 2019
    WIP Screenings
    Official Selection
  • Guadalajara Film Festival
    Guadalajara
    Mexico
    June 18, 2022
    Mexican / National Premiere
    Mezcal Award Competition - Official Selection
Director Biography - Rubén Rojo Aura

Member of an actor's family, ROJO studied Cinema at Mexico and EICTV/Cuba. He co-produces the documentary SHE(s)/Baute/10, and he has directed the short films THE ROAD/06 and NORTHERN HIGHWAY/07 and the documentary THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE NIGHT/15, all of this works with a remarkable tour of festivals and prizes. And his first fiction film, COURAGE/Post, has an important previous step in international labs, workshops and forums, including Guadalajara, Berlin, Malaga and Cannes. //
Miembro de una familia de actores, estudia Cine en México y en la EICTV/Cuba y coproduce el documental ELLA(s)/David Baute/10 (Biznaga de Plata/Málaga, Premio Malvinas/Trieste). Ha dirigido los cortos EL CAMINO/06 y CARRETERA DEL NORTE/07 y el documental EL RUISEÑOR Y LA NOCHE/15, todos con diversos premios, y CORAJE/Post, su opera prima de ficción, ha tenido un relevante paso en labs, talleres y foros internacionales, incluidos Guadalajara, Berlín, Málaga y Cannes.

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Director Statement

I like film that comes from the gut, stories that show the complexity and fragility of the human condition, themes that transform the audience’s perception, even when only small conflicts are portrayed. I like those stories because I usually find in them the reflection of my own existence. That is COURAGE, a project that, being so personal, I think is also honest; a film that uses simplicity to get closer to its audience. COURAGE is us, our doubts and daily struggles, our hesitations and fears, our defects and weaknesses, of that part of ourselves that we sometimes try to cover up with a smile but can be found within us. COURAGE is a work of fiction, but I like to say that it is a project of cinematographic family catharsis: the main characters are based on my mother and my brother and they play themselves. The script, despite being fictional, is inspired by these real people, by their own truths. In moments that happened in the past but whose effects still run through their veins. Once the crisis had passed and both of them were rediscovering each other, it was the right time to shoot this movie. A moment close enough to reality to generate a certain dramatic tension and far enough removed to be reinterpreted in an Aristotelian structure. //
Me gusta el cine que surge de las entrañas, las historias que muestran la complejidad y la fragilidad de la condición humana, los temas que transforman la percepción de los espectadores, incluso cuando se describen pequeños conflictos. Me gustan esas historias porque suelo encontrar en ellas el reflejo de mi propia existencia. Eso es CORAJE, un proyecto que, al ser tan personal, creo que también resulta honesto; una película que utiliza la sencillez para acercarse a los espectadores. Coraje habla de nosotros, de nuestras dudas y angustias cotidianas, de nuestras vacilaciones y temores, de nuestros defectos y debilidades, de esa parte que intentamos disfrazar a veces con una sonrisa pero que se encuentra dentro de nuestra propia naturaleza. CORAJE es una ficción, sin embargo, me gusta decir que es un proyecto de catarsis familiar cinematográfica: los personajes protagonistas están basados en mi madre y en mi hermano y están interpretados por ellos mismos. El guion, a pesar de ser una ficción, está inspirado en estas personas reales, en sus propias verdades. En esos momentos que sucedieron en el pasado pero cuy-os efectos todavía corren a través de sus venas.