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Browse 39 movies from 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.
Oct 2019
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.
Jun 2024
Nov 2023
Sep 2022
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.
Nov 2024
Blue Sunshine is a meditation on grief. Through dreamlike images and fictional scenarios, the director dialogues with her past and present, reflecting on the loss of her mother, the complex relationship with her father and the thought of her own farewell.
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A woman in her fifties who works as a maid in a motel, awaits news from her daughter, who lives in Brazil.
Jul 2018
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.
Jun 2022
A human figure synergizes with the light and questions its existence and society's expectations of it.
Dec 2022
It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at different times. One of the people belongs to that era of the archives, who now lives in a future where the city no longer exists. And the other, a person who has never heard of this city where his family is from.
Apr 2024
Jun 2023
Dec 2025
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.
Jul 2021
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.
In the Dominican Republic, women are constantly harassed by the rigid aesthetic norms established in the collective imagination. In this sense, hair plays a fundamental role: straight hair is good, neat and acceptable.
Jan 2018
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.
filmed in La Romana, República Dominicana in the year 2020.
May 2024