Sugar Island

An unwanted pregnancy drives a young woman in the Dominican Republic to fight against blatant injustice. A film of fascinatingly unique beauty.

Sugar: it’s much more than the sweetener we all love. It is a whole story. A story of Caribbean islands, of colonization, of workers’ rights – and of people. This impressively unique film tells it all in a fascinating mixture of documentary, fictional, and theatrical elements. In doing so, it finds beautiful, almost emblematic images that open up huge spaces of association for the viewer.

Specifically, the film tells the story of Makenya, a young woman who lives with her family on a sugar cane plantation and becomes pregnant unintentionally. However, she not only accepts this fate, along with her relatives she also stands up to the injustices that they are made to suffer.

Political, stylistically impressive cinema that brings together many things that we all too often consider only separately.

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