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CANDELA

By Andres FARIAS

LES CINEMAS DU MONDE - LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS - as PROMO

First film - Pre-Production 2018

This Caribbean thriller portrays contemporary Dominican pop culture while exploring social injustice, violence, insularity, and other themes that are still taboo in the Dominican Republic, including homosexuality and African heritage

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- First film, Thriller
- Countries
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
- Director(s)
- Andres FARIAS
- Producer(s)
- Pablo LOZANO (Monte y Culebra)
- Synopsis
- As a hurricane threatens the Caribbean, three strangers meet in Santo Domingo: Sera, a high society girl who has sex with strangers in the slums; Lieutenant Pérez, a lonely policeman investigating a case to repair his relationship with his daughter; and Candela, a drag queen in a poor cabaret on a quest for justice. All are united by the mysterious death of Renato, a young poet and drug dealer.