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Sugar Island

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  • Drama

Overview

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.

Keywords

  • woman director
  • motherhood
  • teenager
  • ritual
  • hair
  • spirituality
  • colonialism
  • migration
  • haitian
  • unwanted pregnancy
  • granddaughter
  • queer
  • burden
  • youth
  • enslavement
  • social activism
  • latin american
  • dominican
  • black identity
  • sugarcane
  • juxtapositions
  • sugar
  • prose
  • first feature

Details

Status
Released
Release date
March 21, 2025
Original language
English
Production
Guasábara Cine,Tinglado Film,Guasábara Cine, Tinglado Film
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
$2,028
IMDb
tt18301776
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