New Directors Competition
Sugar Island
Sugar Island
An unwanted pregnancy confronts Makenya with sudden adulthood. The teenager lives alongside her grandfather and Mother in the Batey, a Dominican- Haitian community of sugarcane workers. The mechanization of the sugar industry threatens to displace them without compensation. The family resists the change. Makenya reunites with her friends in a parallel and Afro-futuristic dimension. In a theatrical exercise, they recall the black uprisings on the island, and recover ancestral knowledge that forms a sort of anti-racist and decolonial manifesto. Makenya quickly discovers that the job does not guarantee her the freedom she had hoped for. Frustration opens the door to her dimension of social activism.
Presented in the Giornate degli Autori at the Venice International Film Festival.
Horários de exibição
18/10
13:00
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29/10
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30/10
15:00
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direction
Johanné Gómez Terrero
screenplay
Johanné Gómez Terrero
cinematography
Alván Prado
editing
Raúl Barreras
sound
Homer Mora
music
Jonay Armas, Gagá de la 30
production design
Oliver Rivas
cast
Yelidá Díaz, Ruth Emeterio, Juan María Almonte, Génesis Piñeyro, Diógenes Medina
production
Fernando Santos Díaz
co-production
David Baute
produced by
Guasábara Cine
co-produced by
Tinglado Film
world sales
Patra Spanou Film
contact
indicative rating
16
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