Chavón La Escuela de Diseño

Documentary short film based on the private diary of Nayibe Tavares-Abel's great-grandmother from 1919. Includes stopmotion animation and a silent fiction film in 16mm.

Maya is Ayaibex's daughter, an addict in recovery that feels a blame for damages that caused her daughter, Maya decides to remember her mother's childhood experiences in her world of addiction to seek the redemption of the weight that her mother has loaded for 20 years and get both to forgiveness.

A human figure synergizes with the light and questions its existence and society's expectations of it.

Due to the lack of memories of Samuel's childhood, an obsession was born to generate a film archive of short scenes, portraits of his loved ones and poetry in the city of Santo Domingo.

A woman in her fifties who works as a maid in a motel, awaits news from her daughter, who lives in Brazil.

Over time, Frangery’s relationship with her father has become distant, and without noticing that distance became bigger and bigger due to his illness. During her stay at her parents house, she goes to her only source of answers… her mother, to be able to understand her father's day-to-day life. In observing and sharing small moments with him, the answers take shape.

A boy sends a letter to his mother telling his experience living in the capital

Marcia lives with her invalid husband, Tony, who constantly abuses her. Marcia's life takes a turn after she gains the power to perform miracles but refuses to heal Tony’s illness.

An exploration of dominican naming dynamics through testimonies, interviews and introspection.

Mikael, a Haitian immigrant, lives with his mother in Boca Chica, he practices basketball every day with Yeison and other young people from the neighborhood, but one day when he returns from practice his mother has disappeared. The immigration police have taken his family in “la camiona” back to Haiti. Yeison decides to take Mikael into his home, but this brings family conflicts to Yeison's home.

Enrique, Pedro, Camila and Alfredo, four close and intimate young friends gather together after a long time to pass the night catching up, each of them at a turning point in their lives, full of doubts, worry and mistrust among eachother. The pressure of confronting adulthood in a society unsupportive of youth and it's dreams, the fear of loneliness, resentment and gossip among themselves ends up turning a fun night in a night of drama and conflict.

In the machine-controlled city of Sistepolis, M225, a dissatisfied young programmer, is rescued during her commute to work by Niko, an ally of the resistance. Together, they escape to Geapolis, a free world where Gea, the leader of the resistance, guides them. Gea seeks the valuable assistance of M225 to overthrow Sistepolis and liberate its people. Now, M225 becomes the last hope to challenge the dominion of the machines and restore freedom in both worlds.

More of an urban sonata than an urban symphony, the interior of a bus bears witness to moments of contemplation among passengers during a working day.

"La Duarte" has become an autonomous body, separated from the city, with its own biosphere. This bubble of chaos will get bigger and bigger as false civility grows. In order to coexist in the urban jungle, the animal will have to be provoked. Survival becomes primitive, instinctive, and visceral. The most important thing has been to resist and survive. You feel the fervour, you feel the danger and something that is hidden in this jungle.

On a Christmas afternoon, a boy keeps himself entertained by pretending to make his way home.

In a rapidly transforming industrial neighborhood, young Ariel finds joy and escape playing in the nearby hills with his best friend, Cholo. But as the community faces forced evictions and families disappear, Ariel discovers that Cholo is gone without a trace. Determined to find him, Ariel sets out on a heartfelt search through the labyrinthine alleyways, confronting loss, change, and the quiet erasure of the world he once knew.