11th edition CIFF – 9-13 April 2025

FILMS 2025: Caribbean Focus | Feature Films | Short Films | Yellow Robin Award Nominees

FILMS 2024:  Caribbean Focus | Feature Films | Short Films | Yellow Robin Award Nominees
FILMS 2019: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2018: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film

Sugar Island

Dominican Republic, Spain | 2024 | Haitian, Spanish | 91 min. | e.s.

This ravishing debut feature by Johanné Gómez Terrero makes full use of its kaleidoscopic aesthetic to explore a deep well of interconnected themes.
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Mayenka is a teenager living on a sugar plantation with her mother and grandfather. After a night out, she becomes pregnant. To this personal crisis, the family adds another: the company for which her grandfather has worked for forty years plans to expel him from his modest house while paying him a laughable pension.

 The film blends different genres: social realism, theatrical performance, documentary, and dream-like scenes that evoke a spiritual world, which forms the basis of local beliefs and practices. Keeping the focus on Mayenka, the story weaves together the personal and the collective. 

Place: The Cinemas 

Date: April 10

Time: 21:00

Duration:91 min

Place: The Cinemas

Date: April 13

Time: 13:15

Duration:91 min

Year in
Festival

2025

Director

Johanné Gómez Terrero 

Country

Dominican Republic, Spain

Language

Haitian, Spanish

Length

91

Year of Production

2024