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Room

A man, on the telephone, tries frustratingly to communicate with someone. The only answer he gets is an answering machine. His thoughts about what he wants to say go through different temporalities - which happened, are happening or will happen, we do not know exactly - within the same space; an old room of a house, where several people live together like ghosts, although they are not ghosts.
It is a film that tries to reflect on memory and the linearity of time, on the possibility of putting it in crisis.

  • Juan Carlos Zapata Rubio
    Director
  • Juan Carlos Zapata Rubio
    Writer
  • Juan Carlos Zapata Rubio
    Producer
  • Universidad del Cine
    Producer
  • Noemí Appel
    Key Cast
  • Pedro Ducloux
    Key Cast
  • Eliza Sokolinskaja
    Key Cast
  • Olga Sokolinskaja
    Key Cast
  • Inga Peter
    Key Cast
  • Segundo Guisasola
    Key Cast
  • Elena Giacosa
    Key Cast
  • Agustina Liendo
    Key Cast
  • Emilio Iglesias
    Sound
  • Yurandi Poots
    Director of photography
  • Martín Fisner
    Camera
  • Belén Risau
    Field Producer
  • Viviana Gonzales
    Art Director
  • Juan Carlos Zapata Rubio
    Editing
  • Nerina Sánchez
    Editing
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Habitación
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 43 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2007
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Universidad del Cine
  • 6to Festival Internacional de Escuelas RANTES
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    January 1, 2006
    Best director
  • 7 Lucania Film Festival
    Lucania
    Italy
    January 1, 2006
    Offcial Selection
  • 7 Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine FIEC
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    January 1, 2006
    Official Selection
  • III Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del plata.
    Mar del Plata
    Argentina
    January 1, 2006
    Official Selection
  • XXII Concurso Nacional de Cine y Video independiente CIPOLLETI
    Rionegro
    Argentina
    January 1, 2006
    Official Selection
  • 4to Festival Nacional de Escuelas de cine y medios PROMETEO
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    January 1, 2006
    Best national short film / Mention to photography
  • Festival Invitro Visual 2007
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    January 1, 2007
    Nominations for: Best National Short Film, Best Direction and Best Art Direction.
  • Festival Internacional El Espejo 2007
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    January 1, 2007
    Official Selection
  • 7 Cine a la Calle 2007
    Barranquilla
    Colombia
    Official Selection
  • Universidad del Cine
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    January 1, 2007
    Award scaled to 35mm
  • 7mo Festival Tandil Cine
    Tandil
    Argentina
    January 1, 2007
    Official Selection
  • 49Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao.
    Bilbao
    Spain
    January 1, 2007
    Official Selection
  • 25th FESTIVAL TOUS COURTS International Shortfilm Festival
    Aix-en-Provence
    France
    January 1, 2007
    Official Selection
  • 30 Recontres Internacionales Henri Langlois / Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine de Poitiers
    Poitiers
    France
    January 1, 2007
    Official selection
  • 14 Spanish and Latin American Film Festival
    Manchester
    United Kingdom
    January 1, 2008
    Official selection
  • 1 Festival de Cortometrajes de Manizales
    Manizales
    Colombia
    January 1, 2008
    Official selection
  • Dixième Quinzaine de Culture et Cinéma Argentin à Paris LA SUDESTADA
    Paris
    France
    January 1, 2008
  • Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de São Paulo
    Sao Paulo
    Brazil
    January 1, 2008
    Best Short film
  • Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Alternativo y Comunitario "Ojo al Sancocho"
    Bogota
    Colombia
    January 1, 2008
    Official Selection
  • Maratón de Exhibición Imaginaton 2008
    Several cities
    Colombia
    Official Selection
  • Vecinos Perdidos: Buenos Aires-Viena 2008, Muestra de Cine
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    January 1, 2008
    Official Selection
  • Festival Internacional de cortometrajes de Escuelas de Cine de Beirut
    Beirut
    Lebanon
    January 1, 2008
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cine Corto de Popayán 2009
    Popayan
    Colombia
    January 1, 2009
    Special Jury Award
  • Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá MAMBO
    Bogota
    Colombia
    Premiere 35mm copy
Director Biography - Juan Carlos Zapata Rubio

Colombian film director, graduated from the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires (FUC) with a specialization in Stage Direction from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He has made several short films in video, 16mm and 35mm. His short film “Habitación” participated in around 20 international festivals in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, England and Lebanon, obtaining important awards such as Best Short Film at the Latin American Film Festival of Sao Paulo (Brazil).
As an independent filmmaker, he has managed his own audiovisual projects in an integral way, taking part of all the necessary processes for the creation of a cinematographic work, from the script to the image and sound editing.

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