Directing
The life and love of Ruddy the boatman and his married Evangelist lover, Morena, at the banks of the Ozama river, the lowest part of Santo Domingo.
Ten stories that begin the same way: a couple enters a love-hotel room.
Yoli always lived with her mother in a humble neighborhood in Havana. Until one day, a boy invites him to leave and Yoli decides to wait for him, trying to change his routine, even if it is for a day.
An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the grassroots electoral campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris.
Tragic reminder of the political hunting in Trujillo's 1960 dictatorship.