NEW FILM RELEASE
Zafari, by Mariana Rondón (Bad Hair)
is now available for bookings.

ZAFARI / MARIANA RONDÓN (Director) / MARITÉ UGÁS (Producer) / 2024 / 94 MIN

“A metaphor for modern-day Venezuelan society” – Roberto Oggiano, Cineuropa

“A Latin American masterpiece.” — Fernando Ramírez Ruiz, Revista Los Cínicos

“A bold, punk-spirited look at a desperate upper class, paralyzed and incapable of reacting.” — Carlos Marañon, Cinemania

As a hippopotamus is lavishly fed in a nearly abandoned zoo, Ana and her family struggle to survive shortages of food, water, and electricity inside their once-luxurious but now decaying high-rise, scav marking daily life. Blending allegory and realism, director Mariana Rondón delivers a haunting portrait of inequality, fear, and forced migration that resonates powerfully with Venezuela’s present-day crisis.

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Three reasons to book Zafari

1. The film is directed by Mariana Rondón and produced by Marité Ugás, the team behind Bad Hair (Pelo Malo), one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed Latin American films of the last 15 years.

2. Zafari has been recognized on the global festival circuit with screenings at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Biarritz Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, and Cinélatino – Rencontres de Toulouse, attesting to the films’ artistic strength and cross-border relevance.

3. At a moment when Venezuela’s political crisis has returned to international focus, Zafari explores the country’s lived realities, political upheavals, and cultural expression, blending social critique with a distinctly poetic visual language.

Transform your booking
 into a retrospective or Q&A event!

BAD HAIR / MARIANA RONDÓN  (Director) / MARITÉ UGÁS (Producer) / 2013 / 93 MIN
★ GOLDEN SHELL AT SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL

A boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.

THE KID WHO LIES / MARITÉ UGÁS (Director) / MARIANA RONDÓN (Producer) / 99 MIN

Wandering alone after Venezuela’s devastating 1999 mudslides, a young boy searches for the mother he believes is still alive.

CONTACTADO / MARITÉ UGÁS (Director) / MARIANA RONDÓN (Producer) / 99 MIN

An aging prophet, adrift and purposeless, rediscovers his calling when a young follower urges him to resume preaching.

BOCA CHICA / GABRIELLA A. MOSES (Director) / MARITÉ UGÁS & MARIANA RONDÓN (Screenwriters) / 97 MIN

Through the gaze of 12-year-old Desi, local social norms are revealed as systems that frame the sexualization of young girls as a means of survival.

HOW TO BOOK

To book a screening of Zafari at your theater, please contact our Festival and Public Screenings Manager, Renato Galamba, at renato@pragda.com.