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OSLO IBEROAMERIKANSKE FILM DAGER - FILM PÅ SPANSK OG PORTUGISISK I OSLO
SUGAR ISLAND
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25. okt. 2025, 20:30
VEGA, Hausmanns gate 28, 0182 Oslo, Norway
ABOUT THE FILM
2025 (Dominican Republic, Spain)
Director: Johanné Gómez Terrero
Duration: 91 min
Sugar Island is the story of Makenya (Yelidá Díaz). She is a 16-year-old girl who gets pregnant at the worst time possible: when her family is about to lose their house. Themes of colonialism, sexism, and racism merge in this gorgeous drama, putting a very needed emphasis in the unfairness of the obsolete system of the “batey,” a community of sugarcane workers. Afrofuturistic imagery serves as the backdrop for an exploration of the parallels between the discrimination happening today and the island's slave trade in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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