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A Ritmo de Fe

April 2013 •Spanish

Juan is a urban music dancer from the slums. Due to his extraordinary talent, he is allowed to study in the most prestiogious dance studio in the city of Santo Domingo, but to become a star he'll have to go through many obstacles.

Zemi

April 2023 •English

During his first international tour, Zemi, an up-and-coming Dominican rapper, faces the age-old battle between creative integrity and encompassing ambition. While external voices challenge his values, Zemi calls upon a powerful spirit to defend his truth.

Luis

December 2017 •Spanish

Cocote

August 2017 •Spanish

A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic, Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’ COCOTE follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returning home to attend his father’s funeral. When he discovers that a powerful local figure is responsible for his father’s death, Alberto realizes that he’s been summoned by his family to avenge the murder. It’s an unthinkable act — especially for him, an Evangelical Christian. But as pressure mounts, he sees few ways out. Questions of faith, tradition and honor course through this electrifying film, which, seemingly at the speed of thought itself, jumps between film formats, colors, and aspect ratios, radically envisioning a community torn asunder by senseless violence.

The Closet

August 2018 •Spanish

Hiding in a closet with his life on the line, a priest reflects on his darkest secret while calling for help.

La Rasante

September 2021 •Spanish

After the death of his mother, Raúl is forced to look for his father to solve a legal problem with a property, he finds him in a distant town married to a young woman and after 20 years without seeing him they begin a conflictive and longing relationship.

A tiro limpio

December 2013 •Spanish

A team of professional thieves rob a bank, and the police go after them.

La Grande

November 2024 •Spanish

The career of Dominican Merengue Típico singer Fefita La Grande.

La Femme

December 2022 •Spanish

Pulse

April 2018 •Spanish

A cheating husband decides to seek revenge against the woman who infected him with HIV.

Cara a Cara

January 2019 •Spanish

Broken Island

June 2018 •Spanish

Guy, a Haitian boy escaping from poverty, eyewitness the assassination of his parents while crossing the Dominican border. Years later, he confronts the murderers, entangled in a vortex of revenge, love, racial hate and an uncertain future.

Misión Estrella

June 2017 •Spanish

Anna's Struggle

April 2012 •Spanish

Anna is a woman who sells flowers at the local market and whose only hope and joy in her life is her only son Amaurys. Raul, Amaurys' best friend, involves him in a drug deal which results in his death.

Holly Hill

September 2017 •English

Nuns care for a group of boys in a small northern village in the Dominican Republic. In the peak of summer, a young nun’s curiosity collides with the sexual awakening of one of the boys, taking both on a tense and unexpected path.

22/02/2022

Invalid date •Spanish

Caribbean Fantasy

October 2016 •Spanish

The life and love of Ruddy the boatman and his married Evangelist lover, Morena, at the banks of the Ozama river, the lowest part of Santo Domingo.

Nana

May 2016 •Spanish

Once Upon a Fish

March 2014 •Spanish

Ben, a frustrated writer, has decided to end his life. But when his suicide attempt is unknowingly interrupted by his neighbor, his life is thrown in disarray following a series of misadventures that will bring his world truly upside-down, giving him the reality check he needed.

Eva secuestrada y Adan... ¡como si nada!

January 1995 •Spanish