Woodpeckers (2017)

Original title

Carpinteros

Directed by

José María Cabral

Genre

drama film

Country

Dominican Republic

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man in prison in the Dominican Republic communicates with his neighbor across the courtyard through hand signals. They start a romance using this secret language.

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What happens

Woodpeckers (Spanish: Carpinteros) is a 2017 Dominican Republic drama film directed by José María Cabral. It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. It was selected as the Dominican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. In 2017, Cabral won the Havana Star Prize for Best Director for the film at the 18th Havana Film Festival New York. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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