Films

We long for compelling stories.

 
 

CANDELA

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Dominican Republic / France

Fiction film. 90 min.

Director: Andrés Farías

Post-production.

Selected Fundación Carolina Scriptwriters Lab

Winner IBERMEDIA Development

Selected SUNDACE Scriptwriters, Edit and Music Labs

Selected Coproduction Meeting, Guadalajara

Selected MAFF, Málaga Film Festival

Selected La Fabrique Cinéma, Cannes 2018
 

SYNOPSIS

The lives of three strangers in Santo Domingo—a girl from the high society, a lone alcoholic cop, and a drag queen cabaret performer—intertwine on the eve of a hurricane following the murder of a young poet and drug dealer.

Teaser:

https://vimeo.com/376595946

WE ARE ALL SAILORS

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Dominican Republic / Perú 

Fiction film. 104 min.

Director: Miguel Angel Moulet

In competition: Lima International Film Festival 2018

Selected: IFFR Rotterdam 2019 (Voices)

FIPRESCI Prize: Festival Cinélatino de Toulouse
 

LOGLINE

Tolya, a sailor stranded in Peruvian waters, learns to live on mainland. A woman will be his ally. Another journey awaits him.

Trailer:

https://vimeo.com/264528395/7adeae9c79

I WOULD PREFER NOT TO

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Dominican Republic / Argentina / Spain

Documentary Film. 64 min.

Director: Ileana Dell’Unti

Premiered in Competition at Doclisboa 2017.
 

SYNOPSIS

I would prefer not to narrates the day-to-day confrontation of a young man with the writing process and its impossibility, using his film diaries and some verses of his unpublished book. The camera becomes a way of facing himself.

 

PEPE, The Imagination in the Third Cinema

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Dominican Republic /Colombia / Namibia / Germany

Hybrid film. 90 min.

Director: Nelson Carlo de los Santos

Nelson studied at the FUC, at the Edimburg College of Arts, and at CalArts. His short films and academic films have won important awards such as the Bafta de Oro for best experimental short, the International Georges De Beauregard Prize of the IDF Marseille and the Prize for Best Latin American Film in Mar del Plata, among others. He was awarded the Golden Leopard in the “Signs of Life” category of the Locarno Festival in 2017 with his film “COCOTE”, which was also in about 48 festivals collecting 15 international awards, and represented the Dominican Republic in the bid for the Oscar and Goya awards, considered among the 25 best Latin American Films of the decade.

Development

Selected DAAD Residency Berlin

Selected Arché Residency Lisbon

Selected Márgenes Residency Madrid

Winner Hubert Bals Scriptwriting Fund

Selected PROYECTA, Ventana Sur

LOGLINE

In the jungle of Colombia, Pepe, a young Hippo was killed. Between sounds and bellows, his ghost narrates his story, an authentic and false story, serious and playful. Another story to add to the imaginary of these neighboring towns, full of macho fights, dictatorships and beings that have died without ever knowing where they really were.

THE PROTOCOL

Dominican Republic

Fiction film. 90 min.

Director: Pablo Lozano

Development

Selected Talents Guadalajara Coproduction Event 2020

Selected Cine Qua Non Lab 2020

LOGLINE

EMANUEL (65), a successful surgeon oncologist diagnosed with a terminal illness, begins an atypical friendship with ANTONIA (8) that takes him through a mystical Afro-Caribbean world teaching him to live as death approaches.

SUN AND SHADOW

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Dominican Republic

Fiction film. 90 min.

Director: Julia Scrive-Loyer

Development

Winner IBERMEDIA Development

SYNOPSIS

Phil Brea lives a decadent life. He is the musical producer responsible for the Dominican Republic’s “merengue boom” in the 80s. The night he turns 33 years old, one of his best friends commits suicide. The terrible pain of not being able to save someone leads him to try to save himself, getting deep in the bachata movement. A mission that will reunite him with his old mix engineer friend, and his ex-wife, with whom he has a relationship of complicity.

DAY OF THE FISH

Peru / Dominican Republic / Brazil / Japan

Fiction film. 90 min.

Director: Miguel Angel Moulet

Miguel Angel MOULET (1978, Peru) was educated at the School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His short film Los anfritiones/The Hosts (2012) was awarded 3rd place at Cinéfondation at Cannes in 2012. Todos somos marineros/We're All Sailors (2018) is his feature film debut, selected at La Fabrique Cinéma at Cannes Film Festival 2015, premiered in Rotterdam 2019 and awarded FIBRESCI Prize in Cinélatino Toulouse.

Development

Winner IBERMEDIA Development

Winner IBERMEDIA Coproduction

Selected BrLab

Selected PROYECTA, Ventana Sur

SYNOPSIS

Fernando's life is apparently monotonous. Peruvian son of Japanese parents, he works in a metal factory in Japan. In some weekends, he visits a dancer of a nightclub, Izumi. But, when he his illegal business with another immigrant is discovered, Fernando is abruptly deported to Peru. There, in his home city, Lima, he feels like a foreigner. A particular celebration that takes place in both countries, El Día del Pez, will make Fernando aware of his place in the world.