Nostos

Directed by Sofia Camargo

Length:  14:30
Producers: Kai Torres, Sofia Camargo, Ana Winograd
Editor: 

Sofia Camargo
Cinematographer: Melanie Akoka
Sound Designer:

 Lorenzo Caballero

Feeling threatened by her mother’s pregnancy, Juana, a seven-year-old girl, impulsively steals a baby rabbit and runs away to the mountain.

Nostos, ¨a return home¨, is a coming of age story that explores motherhood through a young girl’s eyes and the complexities of domestic life in Latin American society. This film is my attempt to remember, tenderly but acutely, the universe I was part of when I was growing up, specifically my relationship with my mother.

Graduate Film

sc6749@nyu.edu

Sofia Camargo is a New York-based filmmaker, born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. She holds a BA in Anthropology and Art History from Universidad de los Andes and an MFA in Film from New York University. Her work as a filmmaker explores women and domestic life through deeply textured, and disquieting storytelling.

Her latest short film Al lado del río (By the River), 2019, was awarded the Official Selection Jury Award by The National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), was part of the Official Selection of the Cartagena International Film Festival 2020 and selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Sofia’s work as a director of Photography has screened at festivals such as Berlinale, Aspen Short Fest, and New York African Film Festival. In 2023 Sofia received the Vienna Shorts Jury Prize for Best Cinematography.

During her MFA Camargo was a Purin Foundation Scholar and a recipient of the Nikon Storytellers Scholarship 2018, the Jeff Lima Production Award 2020, and the Black Family Price 2022. From 2020 to 2022 Camargo worked as head of Creative Development at the NYU Production Lab.

Currently, Sofia is working on postproduction for We're Not Done Yet, a short film she co-directed with Joseph Longo starring Barbara Sukowa.