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Selected posters for motion picture works produced in the Dominican Republic and the United States.




La Hembrita


2023, Drama
Dir. Laura Amelia Guzmán
“La hembrita is an unsettling portrait of a middle-aged woman, Dominique, and her relations with family, servants and entourage.

Dominique finds herself alone after the departure of her children. One day, the maid brings home her granddaughter and, shortly after, inexplicably disappears. The little girl re-awakens Dominique’s maternal instinct – but neither her relatives nor her friends seem to think it a good decision to keep her.” (International Film Festival Rotterdam)




Bunker


2021, Documentary
Dir. Jenny Perlin
“Independent filmmaker Jenny Perlin began filming in underground bunkers at the beginning of 2018. The result, Bunker, is part road trip and part cinéma vérité, a view into the lives of men living in decommissioned nuclear silos and military bunkers across the Midwest. In visits to secluded hideaways and luxury compounds, Perlin encounters individuals marked by solitude, eccentricity, ingenuity—not to mention entrepreneurial bravado—who each hint at the nebulous question of what makes a good life or a bright future.” (MoMA)


Carmencita


2020, Documentary
Dir. Nayibe Tavares-Abel
“Filmmaker Nayibe Tavares-Abel sets out to make a film based on her great grandmother’s diary entries written in 1918. Incorporating stop motion animation and a silent film shot in 16mm, the filmmaker begins with the aim of poking fun at her great grandmother’s jealousy and conceit, but ends up revealing much about herself in the process.” (Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival)





La fiera y la fiesta / Holy Beasts


2019, Drama
Dir. Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas
“Aging punk diva Vera arrives in Santo Domingo to direct her beloved friend Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished project: a musical film entitled ‘La fiera y la fiesta’. As preparations get under way and shooting commences amidst numerous glamorous social gatherings, conflict and death also begin to creep up on the haunted production. Pervaded by a libidinous tropical atmosphere, Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas’ seventh directorial collaboration is a boldly inventive meditation on the ageing process and the pleasures of the flesh.” (Berlinale)




Noelí en los países / Noelí Overseas


2017, Docu-fiction
Dir. Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas
“Three years after Sand Dollars with Geraldine Chaplin, presented in Competition at the 2015 FIFF, the directors are following the other unforgettable actress in their film, Yanet Mojica. Hired for a film shoot in Venice, in the sumptuous surroundings of the Hotel Excelsior, so far from her Dominican Republic, she discovers Europe for the first time. And with her, she brings the irresistible atmosphere of the Caribbean into the Old World.” (Fribourg International Film Festival)



Scarfaced


2019, Short Film
Dir. J Anthony Roman


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