“The Kidnapping of the Bride”, Interview with director Sophia Mocorrea

July 19, 2023

Sophia Mocorrea, director of The Kidnapping of the Bride tells us about her amazing graduation film and some weird wedding traditions

"The Kidnapping of the Bride", Interview with director Sophia Mocorrea Federica Scarpa

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Filmmaker Sophia Mocorrea learned from her parents about a strange German tradition that involves kidnapping the bride on her wedding day. This was the incipit for the making of The Kidnapping of the Bride, his diploma short at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, which has toured prestigious festivals such as the Berlinale and Sundance and which now arrives at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the section Future Frames.

Sophia is a true force of nature, already intent on developing her first feature film; she tells us about the differences she is experiencing between preparing this and the short film, the adventure with Future Frames and the importance for an aspiring director to make shorts.

In her work German-Argentinean Sophia Mocorrea questions and deconstructs the structures in which young people are socialized within and between cultures. Her award winning short film Matadoras was screened at numerous festivals. Her graduation film, from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, El secuestro de la novia (eng. The Kidnapping of the Bride, 30 min.), won the Best International Short Film Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and received an honourable mention at the 73rd Berlinale in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section. She is currently developing her first feature film Marriage by abduction, which won the Les Arcs Talent Village Award, was invited to the Toronto Film Festival 2022 and is being part of the Torino Script Lab 2023.