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Browse 28 movies from Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD)
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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A simple phone call turns out to have the most dire consequences.
Jul 2000
Last audiovisual student project from Juan José Namnún's days as a cinematography student at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD).
Aug 2001
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
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
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.
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.
Mar 2025
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
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.
When Nicole is murdered, her friends Marta and Melany are left to pick up the pieces of a shattered reality. While the authorities dismiss the case as a random street crime, Marta begins to find disturbing clues hidden in their shared digital world. Together, the two friends must navigate a web of secrets and "leaks" to find out what really happened that day. But as the digital trail grows colder, they realize that the truth might be closer—and much more dangerous—than they ever imagined.
Apr 2026
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
Lucas and Lily, a married couple trapped in the ruins of their relationship, sit down for what appears to be an ordinary breakfast. Beneath the quiet routine, however, lies the emotional decay of years shaped by lies, infidelity, and silence. As accusations cut deeper, their conversation becomes a battlefield where love slowly dies. Around them, the world begins to rot: food spoils, light disappears, and their bodies age in real time — exposing how time has been devouring them all along.
Nov 2025
Eliot seeks revenge after a one-night stand leads to a costly misunderstanding.
Jul 2024
Some friends sitting in front of a television set are watching a film directed by Stanley Kubrick but failed to understand it.
Feb 2000
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.
Dominican filmmakers explore the most important theme in dominican film history: Migration.
Jun 2017
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.
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.
Gloria, a woman who works as a sex worker from her home, is forced to hide her job when her daughter comes to live with her. In her effort to maintain these two worlds, she struggles to preserve both her livelihood and her daughter's respect.
Aug 2023
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