Mosh, a 16-year-old dancer, lives with her terminally ill mother and a cousin who is involved in drug trafficking. As things worsen, an unexpected visit changes the family’s fortunes.
A couple tries anything they can to keep a restaurant from going broke.
Alicia is cheated by her lifelong boyfriend, and ends up in Punta Cana invited by her best friend to forget her ex. On the other hand, his ex-boyfriend’s partner also ends up in Punta Cana, looking for a high-value stone stolen by his partner. There, they will meet some of the most diverse characters, from tasty hotel workers, unscrupulous policemen, mute children, and a widow seeking carnal satisfactions.
If you live in Dominican Republic or Latin America for that matter, you, most likely, have heard the sound of the cameros, those who go around the entire city buying old things. "Hierro Viejo" tells the story of Luis and Nelson, two cameros who have continued their work in the midst of the pandemic, one of them is involved in a crime and will have to deal with the consequences and the karma behind his actions.
A lonely and broken man constantly searches his noisy mind for answers as he struggles to find courage and relief in the woods... This film is inspired by the poem “Caminos delmirro / Path of the mirrow” by Alejandra Pizarnik.
A young couple falls in love instantly and decides to get married in a luxurious Caribbean wedding, but their vacation turns into a roller coaster of jealousy that ends in chaos.
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.
Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
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.
Various stories and dreams intertwine in a group of Dominicans going in an illegal travel to Puerto Rico.
When Sarah and her best friends Jessica and Chanel arrive at a dreamy Caribbean resort from their Parisian suburb, their goal is not to sip mojitos and dance the bachata. The three 25-year-olds are in fact “coka chicas”, drug mules, hoping to make their dream of opening a nail bar come true through a single drug smuggling hustle. Everything seems to be going to plan until Jessica is stopped by the police while they are boarding the plane back to France. The circumstances of her arrest are suspicious and when Sarah and Chanel start looking for her, she is not to be found at any police station or hospital. Bound by the sacred bonds of friendship the girls decide to stay and find Jessica, far from imagining the magnitude of the secrets they are about to uncover and the danger that will be unleashed…
A film noir evocative Caribbean drama set in 1953 in the Dominican Republic during the cruel dictatorship of Leonidas Trujillo. After a group of mental patients escape from Nigua Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Antonio Zaglul is appointed new director of the establishment with the purpose of calming down the negative press the lack of control of the place was generating. It will be difficult to tell if madness lives inside or outside the hospital's walls.
Emi must deal with the disappearance of his parents into another dimension after a magic trick spirals out of control.