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.
Cinematography
Sugarcane fields shot like living monuments to buried history.
Acting
Yelidá Díaz carries silence like a second language.
Direction
First feature with the confidence of someone who waited to speak.
Director
Johanne Gómez Terrero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bateys were originally housing for enslaved sugar workers; today they remain sites of stateless limbo for Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Director Johanne Gómez Terrero cast non-professionals from actual batey communities; Yelidá Díaz was discovered in a regional theater workshop.
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