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THE CAPRICHOSA

LA CAPRICHOSA

By Melina ARAYA

Family - Development 2020

Mavi is an influencer teenager with thousands of followers on the social media. She harasses a partner at school using cyberbullying and after that she hits her. Mavi’s parents decide to punish her by sending her to “The Caprichosa”, her grandparents’ ranch, for a while. In that place she will fall in love with the “zamba”, a typical Argentine dance and she will relate to the local folklore dancers. But her stay in the countryside won’t be easy.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Family, Drama
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 25 - 50 M$
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Melina ARAYA
- Writer(s)
- Javier CORREA CÁCERES
- Producer(s)
- Rosmary HERNANDEZ (Mola Cine)
- Synopsis
- Mavi is 16 years old, she lives in Córdoba and she is a social media star. Her obsession is to look for new strategies to add more and more followers.
  Her stellar position at school is suddenly threatened when Paula, a school partner, has a great success with a video that quickly viralizes on social media. Mavi gets very jealous by her partner´s success and starts harassing her with malicious comments through fake profiles. Paula finds out about this typical cyberbullying campaign and confronts Mavi in a school hallway. They attack each other. This situation is recorded by their peers and is soon viralized on the networks.
  School directors suspend Mavi from going to class for a while as a punishment. Her parents also decide to punish her by sending her to “The Caprichosa”, her grandparents’ ranch where she has to study on her own.
  
  She is bored and irritable in that place despite the love of her relatives.
  
  By accident, Mavi discovers that her aunt teaches in a folk dance group. She falls in love with the “zamba” and the folk dances in general. She decides to join the group that is preparing for a big End of the Year’s party though they have few days for preparation.
  
  Mavi begins to be attracted to Pedro, her dance partner. But the situation gets complicated when Ana, one of the dancers and Pedro’s ex-girlfriend, begins bothering her from the moment she meets her. It all gets worse when Ana finds out that Mavi lied saying she wasn’t using social media in order to hide her school incident.
  
  Mavi will try to connect with her family and herself trying to avoid the violent provocations of someone who harasses her in the same way that she used to do some time before. But the wounds of the soul cannot be healed easily.