Movies: Aurora Dominicana

  • 2023
    Babygirl

    Babygirl (2023)

    Babygirl

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    Set in an upper-class neighbourhood of the Dominican Republic, La Hembrita is an unsettling portrait of a middle-aged woman, Dominique, and her relations with family, servants and entourage....

    Babygirl
  • 2018
    Fireflies

    Fireflies (2018)

    Fireflies

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    Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to red...

    Fireflies
  • 2015
    Sand Dollars

    Sand Dollars (2015)

    Sand Dollars

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    Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady client, A...

    Sand Dollars
  • 2022
    Bantú Mama

    Bantú Mama (2022)

    Bantú Mama

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    A French woman of African descent manages to escape after being arrested in the Dominican Republic. She finds shelter in the most dangerous district of Santo Domingo, where she is taken in by a group of children. By becoming their protégée and matern...

    Bantú Mama
  • 2019
    Holy Beasts

    Holy Beasts (2019)

    Holy Beasts

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    Remembers an artist in the form of a somnambulistic fantasy: A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominican filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished work....

    Holy Beasts
  • 2019
    Sanctorum

    Sanctorum (2019)

    Sanctorum

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    In a small village on the edge of the war between the military and the cartels, a little boy escapes to the forest to plead to the gods of nature for his disappeared mother's safe return....

    Sanctorum
  • 2017
    Stormmaker

    Stormmaker (2017)

    Stormmaker

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    Romero, a retired fisherman and a forgotten hero by the community, lives isolated in his home, surrounded by ghosts of the life he couldn't have, spirits that materialize before him as his real family. Alcoholic and schizophrenic, surviving on a dail...

    Stormmaker
  • 2013
    Heights

    Heights (2013)

    Heights

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    Miriana “Miwi" awakens at midnight to find out her sister Juliana had an accident. We don't have more information, just the vertiginous impulse of Miwi to take some food, money, a cell phone and start the car in order to accompany her sister on a tr...

    Heights
  • 2012
    Jean Gentil

    Jean Gentil (2012)

    Jean Gentil

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    Jean Remy is a Haitian man struggling to find employment in Dominican Republic. Confronted with rejection and discrimination in the city, he sets off to try his luck in the countryside. Imbued with a naturalistic grace, this deeply sympathetic portra...

    Jean Gentil
  • 2016
    Site of Sites

    Site of Sites (2016)

    Site of Sites

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    Filmed with irony, the film describes brief moments in the lives of tourists, workers, and local vacationers around the construction of an artificial beach somewhere in the Caribbean....

    Site of Sites
  • 2013
    Carmita

    Carmita (2013)

    Carmita

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    Nearly half a century ago, Carmen Ignarra arrived to Mexico after leaving behind her Cuban homeland, in the hopes of becoming the greatest Caribbean actress in Hollywood. But the American dream tur- ned out to be more difficult than she’d thought, an...

    Carmita
  • 2015
    Psychotropic Sunrise

    Psychotropic Sunrise (2015)

    Psychotropic Sunrise

    4.42015HD

    Following a suicide attempt, 19 year old Lito travels from Monterrey to Querétaro to visit his 20 years old cousin Koko; where he joins his group of friends with the intention of selling drugs to pay for a weekend trip to the beaches of Michoacán. Am...

    Psychotropic Sunrise
  • 2010
    Ocaso

    Ocaso (2010)

    Ocaso

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    Rafael, an old butler of a decadent farmhouse, lives with his landlord in that space. He develops a series of actions and daily routines that resume a life and a glorious family past. These actions and gestures will become the only way of sustaining ...

    Ocaso