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Papi (2020)

Papi poster
Directed by
Noelia Quintero Herencia
Genre
drama
Country
Dominican Republic
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
3.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An eight-year-old girl copes with her drug-dealing father abandoning her. She retreats into a world of memories and imagination.

surrealdreamlikemelancholicchildlikeemotionally rawslow-burnintrospectivevisually poetic

What happens

Papi (lit. 'Daddy') is a 2020 Dominican surrealist drama film written and directed by Noelia Quintero in her directorial debut. Based on the novel of the same name by Rita Indiana, the film stars Avril Alcántara, Hony Estrella, Amauris Pérez and Olga Bucarelli. It follows the memories and imagination of an eight-year-old girl as she deals with the abandonment of her drug-dealing father. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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