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Browse 29 movies from Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD)
After years away from the church, David, returns to confess a sin that has haunted him in silence. But inside the shadows of the confessional, an unseen priest seems to know far more than he should. As the night unravels, guilt, fear, and buried memories begin to blur the line between faith and terror.
May 2025
On a dark night, Javier desperately calls his mother-in-law Ana to ask about Alison, who has been missing. Javier, trying to remain calm, hides a dark secret.
Aug 2024
Anna is a young woman hunted by memories of her stepfather. After the death of her stepfather, Anna goes out partying with her friends before preparing to face her past in a family reunion.
Mar 2025
Amid the relentless chaos of war, a young soldier struggles to protect his younger brother as fear, memory, and violence blur together. As the battlefield closes in, the line between survival and psychological collapse begins to dissolve.
Dec 2024
Lorena, a 13-year-old girl, discovers she is pregnant and faces a storm of emotions and decisions. While her mother rejoices at the news, she silently struggles with fear, guilt, and the pressure of an uncertain future. In her search for a way out, she embarks on a solitary path that will test her strength and her limits.
Jan 2026
Andrés, a young man desperately trying to reach his father. With every unanswered call, his frustration grows, transforming the silence into an echo of all the things left unsaid.
May 2026
Eliot seeks revenge after a one-night stand leads to a costly misunderstanding.
Jul 2024
Two filmmakers have their film's hard drive stolen, which they need to finish in two days, so they go to great lengths to find it.
Alone in his room, Michael, a young boy, its getting ready for a party but his thoughts invades him. He faces his reflection, where every glance reveals the quiet weight of insecurity and the fragility beneath his skin.
Mar 2026
A young college girl, marked by a quiet and solitary routine, begins to notice subtle hints that something is wrong in her apartment. Everything takes a chilling turn when, after an unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger, it is revealed that a stalker has been hiding in her home. Now, she must face her deepest fear: that the real danger was always closer than she thought.
Alma is a young film lover who dreams of one day making a living creating stories. Determined, she decides to go to the city to study film, but finding herself alone and without the care of her mother, she collides with the dangers of the big city, which makes her question whether she is following a good path or has just let herself be carried away by the illusion of a dream.
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Pedro, a man trapped in the rutine and silence of his room, where an water drop turns into the echo of an emotional pain. What starts as an odd sound, leads him to discover a box full of memories that detonates a silence catharsis.
A young man trapped in recurring sleep paralysis begins to lose the line between waking reality and hallucination, as something unseen waits for him on the other side.
Nov 2025
Mariah, after learning of her mother's death, returns to her native roots in the small house where she was born and encounters memories that give her more clarity about the traumas of her past.
Carmen is a nostalgic girl who loves music and movies. She perceives the world as lonely and sad. Men adore her. But what people don't know is that during the dark nights of the city, Carmen goes to clandestine rock & roll parties to have fun and drink. At the end of the parties, she gets drunk and falls in love with Valentino, which causes her to have problems with alcohol and love dependency. She will have to stop drinking and take a different path in her life, or else she will end up lost in the world of alcohol for the rest of her life and the path of the love dependency.
Three young film students conducting research for their thesis project discover the true impact of the industry they intend to enter, Dominican cinema.
Sep 2024
Last audiovisual student project from Juan José Namnún's days as a cinematography student at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD).
Aug 2001
A young couple is going through a marital crisis and, after she files for divorce, they agree to take some time to reflect. Believing her partner is away on a business trip, she takes the opportunity to entertain her lover for the weekend. However, she is unaware that she has been watched. Upon discovering her infidelity, he is deeply hurt and overcome with rage.
May 2024
Dominican filmmakers explore the most important theme in dominican film history: Migration.
Jun 2017
In a world where water equals power and wine represents status, Jhonny, a pig farmer, is driven by poverty and humiliation into a corrupt system of gambling and abuse. Scarcity, betrayal, and violence push him toward a brutal transformation that exposes the true rot of the social order.