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In a primitive land, a sexually frustrated hominid breaks the food chain by giving in to the temptation of murdering innocents and self-destructive fun without consequences.
The story of the Sosúa settlement, the refugee colony created on land donated by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo that saved hundreds of European Jews at a moment when few countries would accept them.
Armando, an energetic teen and son of a well-respected Sargent, accidentally commits a serious crime while playing a wild and dangerous game with his friends outside of the school campus. Now Armando will have to deal with the weight of his actions (literally).
A young Dominican woman reconsiders going to the USA after discovering a family secret.
Retracing the paths of popular faith, exploring its ancestors in the Antilles, Dominican filmmaker Juliano Kunert composes a work of ethnographic experimentation on a highly inspired promenade. Along the way, he sculpts images to represent the island’s cloudy identity, passing through its contrasting religious heritage, cemeteries of distant heroes and historical crossroads hidden in the wind.
A photographer wandering around the city finds an ongoing birthday party.
Comic reflection of the importance of knowledge and the possible consequences that ignorance can bring.
Memories of a couple over the years and how their love transcends to create another life.
Noa, a teenager passionate about music, struggles against the time limit to choose a college major, while traveling through music worlds that reflect her internal conflicts amid a whirlwind of indecision.
After a long shift in the forest, four fantastic fairies end their day at a bodega.
In a heartfelt conversation with my paternal grandmother, I gained a deeper understanding of her upbringing, her struggles, and her joys. She shared stories of her selfless sacrifices, working tirelessly in distant places to provide a better life for her sons. Despite her unwavering dedication, she often felt misunderstood and seen as an absent mother rather than the loving and devoted parent she truly was. This poignant insight into her life highlighted the complexities of her experiences and the depth of her love.
A group of young people face a Satanic cult linked to a series of killings.
It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at different times. One of the people belongs to that era of the archives, who now lives in a future where the city no longer exists. And the other, a person who has never heard of this city where his family is from.
Boy and girls from the Centro Educativo Las Americas in Santo Domingo interviews Arturo Rodriguez Fernandez at Casa de teatro in the colonial zone of the city about cinema.
A painter obsessed with preserving all her memories is confronted with the most painful one yet, and struggles between keeping it alive or learning to let it go.
This disc features a collection of songs performed by Latin singing sensation Frank Reyes. Consisting of songs that appeared on his Dejame Entrar album. Songs include "Nada De Nada", "Adolecente", "No Te Olvides De Mi", and a half-dozen others.
Enrique, Pedro, Camila and Alfredo, four close and intimate young friends gather together after a long time to pass the night catching up, each of them at a turning point in their lives, full of doubts, worry and mistrust among eachother. The pressure of confronting adulthood in a society unsupportive of youth and it's dreams, the fear of loneliness, resentment and gossip among themselves ends up turning a fun night in a night of drama and conflict.
A short trip to inner-space.
The life of illegal Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
Story about the war conflict on the small fictional island of Sarilla for its colonial independence.
Five guys in a night with a big-ass problem are counting only with 500 peso
Facundo, a middle-aged man, inspired by the character of "The Son of Man" by Renee Magritte. He is going through the crisis of the 40s and will have to face himself in a duel to discover his true identity, which makes him authentic.
A woman going through emotional grief takes a trip to the beach in search of inner peace.
Kamila has an epiphany about time spent at a place that makes her feel stuck.
This documentary follows Jeanne Marcelino, producer and founder of Caribe Motion, from her beginnings alongside her husband to the consolidation of her company in the local and international film industry. Her story reveals how passion and resilience make dreams possible.
Cristiano Bruno is a young man that resides in one of the poorest slums in the highlands of Santo Domingo. He was raised by his mother, Maritza Bruno, after the incarceration of his father Marcos Ramirez for allegedly being involved in dirty business, and drug dealing years before Cristianos birth. Cristiano grew up surrounded by a difficult and precarious environment, leaning, like his father before him, towards the business of selling and trading narcotics. Cristiano falls into what seemed to be a lucrative business but gets betrayed and entangled in the maze of envy and deceit that leads to the tragical resolution of this story.
Nueva Forma explores the intimate journey of a woman who, after experiencing violence and pain, finds in ceramics a way to reconstruct herself. Through fragments of memory and symbolic scenes, we follow her trembling hands as they shape clay, while her body and spirit search for the strength to rise again. The clay, fragile and resilient at the same time, becomes an extension of her own rebirth. Between the memory of violence and the decision to heal, Nueva Forma is a visual ode to the power of resilience and creation.
The famous Spanish sculptor José Manuel Martínez Perez decided to create a unique work, and the new sculpture was modeled by art history student Constanza. During the months of cooperation, the two not only devoted themselves to creating sculptures, but also discussed art topics such as science fiction movies and Rodin's sculptures. They also shared their views on issues such as generational differences and psychological emotions. In the communication, their views collided with each other...
22-year-old Abril wakes up to find her 15-year-old self in front of her. Together, they explore memories and places that no longer feel the same, while confronting their differences and nostalgia. Both versions struggle to find answers within the different stages of their lives.
Seven years after losing her mother, Diana embarks on an emotional quest to recreate an unfinished family photo. Amidst memories, losses, and new discoveries, she learns that true memories live in the ties that bind her to her family.
Xiomara is a young woman who dreams of becoming a beauty queen by winning a beauty pageant since she was a kid, she will have to face the mysterious emptiness that Esteban left in everybody around her when he left, for her to achieve her dream.
The first part of the trilogy shows the political, economic, and social conditions that made Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic possible. It offers a stirring vision of more than twenty years of Dominican history, from 1916 to 1937, using for such aim contemporary films, pictures, documents, and audio recordings of speeches.
Yan is awful at love, disappointments lead him to meet his friends in a nightclub, where they encourages him to talk to a girl. This time Yan will not do it alone, in this story of fantasy and love at first sight.
5 women tell their stories of resilience and fight against oppression in the Dominican Republic and the United States in hilarious and heartbreaking ways.
A group of kids discover an ancient relic in a cave that permanently alters the course of their lives.
Adrián walks by the river with Abel and Eduardo, playing simple games. When tension rises, he suggests hide-and-seek. The others vanish into the trees, and Adrián, now alone, wanders into a forest that seems to grow with each step. The afternoon darkens. A storm is coming.
Zoe is fired from her job for being constantly late. Then, a secret society of people whose sole purpose is to be late kidnaps her and offers her membership. Zoe initially resists, but later agrees to a mission to prevent a war, which convinces her to join them.
Caudillismo, demagoguery, populism and electoral fraud to the beat of merengue: this is how the latest elections unfolded in the Dominican Republic, on an island ravaged by corruption and economic crisis.
During an argument with her parents, Sara decides to show them a documentary about the only woman in a movie set in the country. What they don't realize is that this was done by Sara and her classmates, and the opportunities it will bring to her career as a filmmaker.
In a dystopian world, where eco-friendly appearance is what matters, Aurora tries to hide her secret from society.
Trying to escape her abusive husband, Esther tries to be selected by extraterrestrials to live with them, but to do that she will have to face a man who believes the extraterrestrials will destroy the world.
Alejandro Alsina is a Dominican painter who, through his art and eccentricity, has earned a place among the most recognized street artists in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo. But behind his iconic smile and wild lifestyle lies a story that few could even begin to imagine.
1918. 1st U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic. Two American's marines walk in an old and forgotten reed bed looking for an special unit called "Los Abejones".
Gloria, a woman who works as a sex worker from her home, is forced to hide her job when her daughter comes to live with her. In her effort to maintain these two worlds, she struggles to preserve both her livelihood and her daughter's respect.
Pedro is a loving husband and a dedicated librarian, but he also is a serial killer with a thirst for blood so huge and irrepressible that will endanger the illusion of his life.
