Traces of Sandalwood

(Rastres de Sàndal)

María Ripoll / France, Spain, India / 2014 / 95 min
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  • Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

    Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Gaudí Awards

    Best Film in Catalan Language

  • Gaudí Awards

    Best Female Lead

  • Gaudí Awards

    Best Production Manager

  • Gaudí Awards

    Best Art Direction

  • Gaudí Awards

    Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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Synopsis

English and Spanish with English subtitles

With Nandita Das, Aina Clotet, Naby Dakhli, Subodh Maskara

Despite her fame and fortune, Mina (Nandita Das), a successful Indian actress in Mumbai, can’t forget her little sister Sita, from whom she was forced to separate after their mother’s death. Thirty years later, she learns that Sita (Aina Clotet) is alive and well in Barcelona. However, Sita’s adoptive parents have erased all traces of her past. She is now called Paula, works as a researcher and has no recollection of her Indian background, let alone of Mina. Faced with the shocking truths of her past, Paula begins a long journey of self-discovery, aided along the way by her budding romance with the handsome Indian immigrant Prakash (Naby Dakhli). A story of hope and love, from Mumbai to Barcelona and all the way back.

About the Director
Maria studies in the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. Her short film KILL ME LATER wins the First Prize in the Oberhausen Film Festival and the Panavisión Grant in the Houston Festival. In 1999 she directs her first film debut LLUVIA EN LOS ZAPATOS/IF ONLY/ TWICE UPON A YESTEDAY. With Lena Headey, Douglas Henshall and Penelope Cruz.-The film wins Best Screenplay Montreal Film Festival, Audience Award Sitges Film Festival and Seattle Woman Film Festival, Nominated Goya 1999 for Best Director. She directs in 2001 TORTILLA SOUP in Los Angeles (with Hector Elizondo, Jaquieline Obradors, Elisabeth Peña)produced by Samuel Goldwin, The film gets g 9 nominations in ALMA Awards. In 2002 she directed WITNESS, a documentary shot in NY for Canal Plus. In Spain she shoots a feature film called UTOPIA (2003), which gets great acceptance of critic and public. In 2007 she directs TU VIDA EN 65′/ YOUR LIFE IN 65”, written by Albert Espinosa. This film is invited to many festivals, as AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, Stockholm Festival, etc.
Maria Ripoll also directs FAMA, TODO POR UN SUEÑO for TVE (spanish television) in 2009.

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During two years, she has been producing and directing CHROMOSSOME 5 released in 2013. This documentary and his DOCU WEB has got a great acceptance on TVE and also online.

 

Nowadays Maria Ripoll is working on commercials.
Press

“Adapted from her own bestselling novel (co- authored by Asha Miro), producer and writer Anna Soler-Pont’s screenplay is pure poetry, while Maria Ripoll’s direction and the lead performances exude just the right amount of grace and texture.” – Michael Rabehl,, Cinequest Film Festival

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