Films
We long for compelling stories.
CANDELA
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.
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WE ARE ALL SAILORS
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.
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I WOULD PREFER NOT TO
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of a young man with the writing process and its impossibility, using his film diaries and some verses of his unpublished book.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
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
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.