10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
Natalia Cabral | Dominican Republic | 2014 | 86 min | Spanish
In the heart of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic’s capital, lives an elderly widow with her Afro-Caribbean housekeeper. While the lady of the house works on plant projects and calls the outside world, the domestic worker keeps things shiny. Alongside differences, their existence also intertwines. For instance watching soaps together, the conversations they have and their jostling in the kitchen where the lady of the house always has the last word. Whether it’s about storing onions, preparing meat or adding spices. And, if she has got out of bed on the wrong side, the day is characterised by impatience and a flood of complaints.
In this tragi-comic documentary, a static camera records the seemingly careless, yet archetypal scenes of daily life in fly-on-the-wall style. What happens in a place without clear social distinctions if class differences are still so deeply engrained in culture?
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 11 April 2019
Time: 22:15
Duration: 1:05
Year in
Festival
2015
Director
Natalia Cabral
Camera
Oriol Estrada
Cast
Francisca Pérez de Sosa
Paula Lebrón
Country
Dominican Republic
Editor
Oriol Estrada
Language
Spanish
Length
86 min
Music
x
Producer
x
Production Company
Faula Films
Production Design
Natalia Cabral
Sales
Faula Films
Scenario
Natalia Cabral
Sound Design
Natalia Cabral
Oriol Estrada
Year of Production
2014
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