Sugar Island (2025)
- Directed by
- Johanné Gómez Terrero
- Genre
- docudrama
- Country
- Dominican Republic, Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rating
- 1.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A pregnant 14-year-old girl lives in a sugarcane community in the Dominican Republic. She must confront the realities of growing up and the choices ahead of her.
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What happens
Sugar Island is a 2024 coming-of-age drama film co-written and directed by Johanné Gómez Terrero. It stars Yelidá Díaz as Makenya, a 14-year-old Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in a sugarcane community and is forced to begin her journey to adulthood after becoming pregnant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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