Ramón Emilio Candelario

Danny 45: El terror de La Victoria

Danny 45, sentenced to 30 years in the penitentiary of La Victoria de Santo Domingo, is the absolute control of the dreaded prison, his abuses and macabre actions against the other inmates, make people of the same environment betray him, and so between all of them try to take his life.

Dis-appeared

The story of Manuel, a young man, entrepreneur, married, has a big accident after a long chase in which he's the target, his chaser can't find him after searching his crashed car, and that's when the plot unfolds into his location. Manuel's wife, Paulina, begins a search with the police that will uncover Manuel's deepest darkest secrets.

Parsley

In 1937, near the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a young Haitian woman named Marie is expecting her first child with Frank, her doting Dominican husband. After her mother's burial, she is awakened in the middle of the night by distant screams. The immediate execution of all Haitians on Dominican soil has been ordered — the so-called “Cut” — and what seals a victim’s fate is whether or not they can pronounce "perejil" (parsley). Marie takes off to find Frank in the next town over, with nothing but the clothes on her back.

Tabula Rasa

An intimate family party takes place in an exclusive residential neighborhood. Leo celebrates the birth of Izan, her first son, together with her husband Julio, her sister Claudia and her friend Hector. During the party, Claudia goes to fetch her nephew from his crib and discovers to her dismay that he has disappeared, along with Luciana, the nanny. No one has seen anything. The stress and shock bring up old mental problems in Leo. She enters a downward spiral and gradually loses touch with reality. She begins to doubt not only her life, but also her own identity.

Woodpeckers

Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.

The Projectionist

A lonely man who operates a film projector finds his only solace in a woman he sees on a film reel. After the reel is lost in an accident, he sets out to find the woman through the remotest, poorest places of the Dominican Republic.

Liborio

Liborio is a peasant who disappears in a hurricane and returns as a prophet. He says he’s been given a mission: to bring the good and take away the evil, curing the sick and teaching by example. People begin to congregate by his side and they move to the mountains to have total freedom and develop his dream of an independent community. Everything changes when the invading US Marines wants to disarm and disband the community. Liborio wants to avoid a confrontation but they know they can't run forever.

Platanero

Ti-Frè and Gran-Frè, two brothers of Haitian origin living in a Dominican Republic shantytown, struggle daily to survive. On a full moon night, desperation pushes them to steal from a plantation, where a mysterious beast prowls in the shadows of the banana trees.

Baño de Mujeres

Three women on a road trip find out about a human trafficking network operating in a roadside stop.

42nd Street

A sensory dive into the lives of dancers and artists hungry for fame, clashing with police tactics and unorthodox views. 42nd Street unveils a defiant counter-culture in the Dominican urban scene—all unfolding on a bold, unrelenting 600-meter 42nd street.