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A young woman in the Dominican Republic is driven to fight against the screaming injustice of her unwanted pregnancy. In a film of fascinating, independent beauty.

Sugar: much more than the sweetener we all love. It is a whole story. A story of Caribbean islands, colonization, workers' rights, and - people. This impressively independent film tells all of this in a fascinating mix of documentary, fictional, and theatrical elements. It finds beautiful, almost emblematic images that open up vast associative spaces for the viewer. - Specifically, the story of young Makenya is told here, who lives with her family on a sugarcane plantation and becomes unintentionally pregnant. But she does not only accept this fate; together with her relatives, she also stands up against the injustices that befall them. - Political, stylistically impressive cinema that brings together much of what we too often consider separately.

Director Johanné Gómez Terrero is an afrodiasporic artist who has already made a name for herself as a documentary filmmaker. She also works as a producer and teaches at the International Film School in Cuba. ›Sugar Island‹ is her feature film debut.

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