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Sugar Island

Feature film | Fiction | Documentary

Woman with afro hairstyle wearing a purple dress holding a turtle surrounded by people in colorful clothing and headscarves in front of green plants
Sugar Island © Patra Spanou


Hof 8

Dir: Johanné Gómez Terrero | DO/ES 2024 | Feature film | 91 mins | Original version with German subtitles
Starring: Yelidá Díaz, Ruth Emeterio, Juan María Almonte, Génesis Piñeyro, Diógenes Medina

Makeny lives with her mother and grandfather in a Dominican-Haitian community of sugarcane workers when, following an unplanned pregnancy, she is confronted with the sudden realities of adulthood and social injustice shaped by colonial legacies.

Hof 8

3D map of the MQ complex highlighting courtyard 8 and surrounding buildings.
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