Dominican Movies

Dominican film portal. Billboard weekly in different provinces.

Félix Germán sabe lo que significa hacer cine en el país. Su participación en el proyecto de ‘Para vivir o morir’ (1996) le enseñó que una película no sólo se termina con buenas intenciones. Ahora, ante su primer proyecto como director, se rodeó de técnicos capaces y con ellos llevó a escena un guión basado en varias historias del escritor Carlos Peña.

La Soga the personal journey of a brave man who risks everything to find justice and along the way realizes the price he paid in his search for vengeance.

This cute farce about crazy cousins takes its Elmore Leonard-style sun-baked plot a few degrees of latitude further south of Miami, to the Dominican Republic. Directed in Spanish by Humberto Che Castellanos.

A great film, but a very dominican. The tale of a Dominican widower named Balbuena (Marti), who moves to New York searching for a better life. However, once there he encounters a troubled family reunion, difficulty finding a job without a green card, a wild relationship with another ex-Dominican, and a run-in with the law. Based on a popular Dominican Republic television character.

Shoeshine Boy is a feature film based on true events about a poor Dominican boy. It chronicles a life transformed from extreme poverty to triumph as extreme kiteboarding world champion. It is a modern-day testimony for the shoe shiner, or soul searcher, in each of us.

Documentary in which co-director Renee Silverman (with Peter Miller) mirrors real-life challenges faced by present-day Dominican teenagers in Washington Heights, with the situation of the Jewish refugees who moved to Sosua in the 1930s. The film also examines the contradiction between Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo's rescue of European Jews and the murder of thousands of people during his regime, including a massacre of Haitians in border towns.

The Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic, he's warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking a centuries old taboo, he discovers shocking examples of modern-day slavery intrinsic to the global sugar trade. On an island known for tropical beauty, tourists flock to escape winter and relax with little knowledge that just a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are toiling away in unseen plantations harvesting sugarcane most of which ends up in the United States. Cutting cane by machete, they work 12 hour days, 7 days a week frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare and adequate nutrition. Often they are stateless, with neither Dominican nor Haitian identity and virtually invisible in the eyes of the law. The Price of Sugar raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies

Comedy Directed by Alfonso Rodríguez, Writing credits Alfonso Rodríguez.