Maia Otero Guzmán

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.

Omar and Nini are a young couple in bloom, sharing a small apartment in Santo Domingo where they make love and tend to their blind cat Luna. When their paths as creative freelancers begin to sour and financial uncertainty exposes deep resentments, a new job opportunity for Nini offers a potential lifeline. They chase for whatever can give a spark to their relationship, but in the harsh light of adulthood, they might realize that there’s no such thing as a fresh start.

Despite living in a conservative society, Daniela, a closeted queer, commits to a young high school girl named Lucía, but a traumatic event threatens their relationship.

Preparing for a role, an actress holds conversations with pregnant young girls. Throughout the process, the girls lay out the stories of their own lives on camera, changing the course of the production of the film.

Retracing the paths of popular faith, exploring its ancestors in the Antilles, Dominican filmmaker Juliano Kunert composes a work of ethnographic experimentation on a highly inspired promenade. Along the way, he sculpts images to represent the island’s cloudy identity, passing through its contrasting religious heritage, cemeteries of distant heroes and historical crossroads hidden in the wind.