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
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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