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Sugar Island

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Original title: Sugar Island
Year: 2024
Running time: 91 min.
Country: Dominican Republic
Director: Johanne Gómez Terrero
Screenwriter: Johanne Gómez Terrero, María Abenia
Cast: Yelidá Díaz, Juan María Almonte, Ruth Emeterio, Génesis Piñeyro, Diogenes Medina, Francisco Cruz, Xiomara Rodriguez, Isabel Spencer
Music: Jonay Armas
Cinematography: Alván Prado
Producer: Co-production Dominican Republic-Spain;
Tinglado Films, Guasábara Cine
Genre: Drama | Social Drama. Racism
Synopsis: An unwanted pregnancy propels Makenya, a teenager in a sugarcane-surrounded Batey community, into adulthood. Her mother serves the spiritual Mysteries; her grandfather fights for pension rights. As industry mechanization threatens their displacement without compensation, a serpent representing the Mysterious guides Makenya to embrace both her earthly power and multi-dimensional awareness, navigating the realm of the impossible.

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Awards: 2025: Malaga Film Festival: Best Cinematography. 2 nominations

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"An honest, yet mesmerising, look at the socio-political realities in a slice of the Dominican Republic’s sugar industry, Sugar Island uses a decolonial approach to intensify its fiction as well as its realism"

Savina Petkova: Cineuropa

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