5 From God
Actions and Consequences
True Love
Clean Heart
The Benefactor
The Butcher
Tell-Tale Heart
The Man of the Jungle
The Motor Taxi (Motoconcho)
The Last Power Outage
In a Hut
Inseparable
Intermediate
The Indelible Stain
Juan Bosch's Amos
María
Menudo pa' cuanto?
Mili-Seconds
Net Price
Nirvana
Never?
Obsession
Pedro from Bella Vista and His Dream
Nightmare
Rewind
Santo Domingo, Limited Edition
Secu-Ex-Tro
Silence
One Robbery, Two Friends and Three to Run
A fare back
Twins
Hidden Lives

Title: 5 From God
Director: Hector Rafael Belen | Language: Spanish | Duration: 4:08
 
5 From God
Synopsis:

The vulnerability of good values and behavior is represented in small spheres that roll down the street, stepped on by passersby who prefer to step on them rather than to cultivate the rich fruit of their meaning.
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Title: Actions and Consequences
Director: Jorge Soriano | Language: Spanish | Duration: 12 minutes
 

Acciones y Consecuencias Synopsis:
David, a 23-year-old who earns an above-average salary, gets involved in a series of unwise activities, appropriate to someone his age, but which carried serious consequences.

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Title: True Love
Director: Suzette Reyes | Language: Spanish | Duration: 7:54
 
True Love

Synopsis:
David and Carolina are a young couple in search of happiness and progress. While David is happy at the prospect of the arrival of their new baby, Carolina is overwhelmed with doubt about whether she really wants a baby. Will they have their baby or not? Will they be giving up more for less, or vice-versa?
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Title: Clean Heart
Directors: Rosanna Perez | Language: Spanish | Duration: 8:55
 
Clean HeartSynopsis:
Rebecca is a very active 27-year-old who discovers she has a serious heart condition and needs a transplant. Her name is number two on the transplant list when someone suggests that she falsify her application to move herself up to number one. She confronts the moral dilemma of lying and of possibly receiving the donation meant for a sick little girl. When the donor appears she decides not to accept then later discovers that the little girl is the donor’s daughter, whose life she saved.
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Title: The Benefactor
Director: Tommy José Rodríguez Chireno | Language: Spanish | Duration: 2:25
 
The Benefactor
Synopsis:

A man has such an unusual job and lifestyle that he provokes varied sentiments among his family and people who surround him or who just know him.
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Title: The Butcher
Directors: Pablo Rivera and Braudi Saladin | Language: Spanish | Duration: 15 minutes
 
El CarniceroSynopsis:
Five young people decide to throw a party and invite some friends. A few hours into the party one of the guests decides to make a special salcocho but realizes they don't have any meat. He asks two of his friends to accompany him to the butcher shop. One of the guys, the craziest and most daring, is carrying a gun. Who would have ever dreamed that this night would have turned into a nightmare for these young people?
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Title: Tell-Tale Heart
Director: Ivan Aybar | Language: Spanish | Duration: 14:15
 
Tell-Tale Heart
Synopsis:

Nerves’s eye illness drives the old man crazy, provoking him to commit a crime. Nerves, after having perfectly concealed his crime, is driven crazy by the loud and annoying beating of his own heart which provokes him to confess.
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Title: The Man of the Jungle
Director: Carlos A. Rodríguez | Language: Spanish | Duration:15 minutes
 
El Hombre de la Selva
Synopsis:

A man grew up in the jungle as a wild animal. He is captured and taken to the city to live with his father. Now he must face a new world and the difficult truth about life.
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Title: The Motor Taxi (Motoconcho)
Director: Roberto Abreu | Language: Spanish | Duration: 14 minutes
 
El Motoconcho Synopsis:
A motoconcho (motor bike used for transporting people) enthusiast, obsessed with getting a new motorbike, visits a place that sells them. Upon seeing the motorbike of his dreams in the display room, a series of happenings unfold that will change his life forever.
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Title: The Last Power Outage
Director: Geovanni Harol Herrera Gómez | Language: Spanish | Duration: 9:30 minutes
 
El Ultimo Apagón
Synopsis:

It is the year 2048 and a handicapped grandmother is waiting for her grandson to come home from school. The boy is doing research about the “last power outage.” The grandmother calmly tells him about that historical event that occurred in the Dominican Republic in 2011..
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Title: In a Hut
Director: Félix Germán | Language: Spanish | Duration: 9 minutes
 
En un Bohío

Synopsis:

A woman is left on her own with three children when her husband is thrown into prison. She struggles to keep the family together.
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Title: Inseparable
Director: Susibel Espaillat | Language: Spanish | Duration: 12 minutes
 
InseparableSynopsis:
The loss of a loved one is unavoidable, something we have all experienced in our lives. We've all suffered the loss of pure love; but in the face of this, we must be strong and continue living. Ana is a woman who has spent most of her life loving Antonio, who lovingly says farewell to her on the night of his death. On the other hand, there is Nati, a vibrant girl who unexpectedly loses her father. Both stories converge in broken hearts because of the loss of love. At times, we do not understand death but in reality what we don't understand is life.
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Title: Intermediate
Director: Shahzad T. Yunas | Language: Spanish | Duration: 13 minutes
 
Intermedio Synopsis:
As the result of a car accident, Abel Montero falls into a deep coma. He is in the “intermediate” place between life and death, a place where he will have the opportunity to reevaluate decisions he's taken. He now has, in the palm of his hand, the choice of whether his presence in the real world is really important or if it is better to leave it all behind.
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Title: The Indelible Stain
Director: Francisco Montás | Language: Spanish | Duration: 12 minutes
 
La Mancha IndelebleSynopsis:
Narrator, Canek Denisse, is presented with a unique opportunity to change his precarious way of life for a new lifestyle of eternal luxury and unlimited power. But the price is high. He must give up all that has been part of him up to this point, that which has defined him as a person: his ideas. This propels him to take a decision that will affect him for the rest of his life, like a stain that simply cannot be erased.
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Title: Juan Bosch's Amos
Director: Peyi Guzmán | Language: Spanish | Duration: 6 minutes
 
AmosSynopsis:
Based on Juan Bosch's story "Los Amos" about a sick peasant whose boss summons him to tell him he is not a good worker and no longer needed. The boss gives the old man a half a peso for the road.
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Title: María
Director: Alexandra Carolina Fernández | Language: Spanish |
Duration: 10 minutes 38 seconds
 
María
Synopsis:

After having accidentally committed a crime, Mario, a simple country man, flees his village, leaving his wife and 3-year-old daughter Maria to fend for themselves. After 10 years absence, his desire to see his daughter is consuming him. He returns to find that back home in his town, there are still people who will never forget what happened.
 
Title: Menudo pa' cuanto?
Director: Julian Roa Duran | Language: Spanish | Duration: 10:08
 
Menudo pa' cuanto?
Synopsis:

A story about the reality of supermarket deliveries in the Dominican Republic.
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Title: Mili-Seconds
Director: Francisco Rojas | Language: Spanish | Duration: 7:15
 
Mili-Seconds

Synopsis:

Oscar Pérez is faced with the exact moment of his death. He begins to carry out a rapid retrospective of his life. It is a look at the value of existence and the relativity between space and time. Things past sketch out his trajectory which end in self-criticism and understanding that small mistakes can change one’s destiny.
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Title: Net Price
Director: Jose Aquino | Language: Spanish | Duration: 10:08 minutes
 
Neto a pagarSynopsis:
Inspired by real incidents that occurred in Santo Domingo in 1993, this is a personal view of the director about the life and incidents of the main character just before he decided to rob a bank.
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Title: Nirvana
Directors: Daysi Cruz and Mariel Guerrero | Language: Spanish | Duration: 5:45 minutes
 

Nirvana Synopsis:
Nico Vitiello struggles between reality and hallucinations. It is a battle in which life seems to hang from a thread in the face of a rapidly changing reality that stirs up the senses. Nico is on the point of falling into the abyss.

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Title: Never?
Director: Ezequiel Reyna | Language: Spanish | Duration: 12 minutes
 
NuncaSynopsis:
In a world of darkness, Jack searches for his dead wife Laura.
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Title: Obsession
Director: Soraya Mateo | Language: Spanish | Duration: 9:06 minutes
 

ObsesionSynopsis:
Paula and Nicholas seem to have the perfect love; nothing and no one can separate them. Their love is fantastic and indestructible, nevertheless, it is just a question of time before reality seeps in.

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Title: Pedro from Bella Vista and His Dream
Director: Rodrigo Montealegre | Language: Spanish | Duration: 15:00
 
Pedro de Bella Vista
Synopsis:

Pedro, a Dominican shoe-shine boy, dreams of making a film. I, as a film student, want to make a documentary about Pedro. After various discussions, disagreements and some compromises, we arrive at an agreement. The documentary narrates the life of Pedro while revealing his dreams with a surprise ending.
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Title: Nightmare
Director: | Language: Spanish | Duration: 8:08
 
Nightmare

Synopsis:

Karina, a young Civil Engineering student, is hearing a voice that is telling her to free herself from the chains that have bound her for years
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Title: Rewind
Director: Fico Cruz | Language: Spanish | Duration: 13:55
 
Rewind

Synopsis:

Tyson Gil is a young man from a modest background who has just earned a degree in marketing technology and is looking for a job in his field. He has economic problems and desperately needs a job but at the same time he is very proud and thinks that his university degree will help him find a job quickly. After many interviews and many rejections, Tyson, desperate and under the negative influence of a friend, considers the possibilities of a quick money-making scheme but his values lead him to reflect and he chooses the right path.
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Title: Santo Domingo, Limited Edition
Director: Manuel Sanchez | Language: Spanish | Duration: 5:00
 
Santo Domingo, Limited EditionSynopsis:
Important aspects of our beloved capital, Santo Domingo.
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Title: Secu-Ex-Tro
Director: Luis Miguel Abreu | Language: Spanish | Duration: 13:46 minutes
 
Secu-Ex-Tro
Synopsis:

This is the story of a love relationship that ended long ago but has remained an obsession on the part of the young man. He is a Colombian drug addict who hires 2 thugs to kidnap his ex-girlfriend.
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Title: Silence
Director: Pablo Morel | Language: Spanish | Duration: 6:10
 
Silence Synopsis:
Gloria is abused by her stepfather who is an alcoholic. A lack of communication pushes her mother to force Gloria to talk about what is going on.
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Title: One Robbery, Two Friends and Three to Run
Director: Miguel Alcantara | Language: Spanish | Duration: 7:44
 
One Robbery, Two Friends and Three to Run
Synopsis:

Julio and Cornelio are inseparable friends. Their precarious economic situation has given Cornelio the idea of robbing a money changer utilizing a strategy right out of a Hollywood movie. To carry it out, since he has no experience in this area, he calls on the assistance of his only friend whom he asks to be the getaway driver. Julio doesn’t want to be part of the crazy plan. Instead of saying no to his friend, he comes up with all manner of obstacles to stop the operation from taking place and thus swaying Cornelio into forgetting the robbery and finding other ways of making money.
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Title: A fare back
Director: Robert Lizardo | Language: Spanish | Duration: 7 minutes
 
Esperanza

Synopsis:

Charo, a Dominican prostitute tells the story of Hope, another Dominican prostitute who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Title: Twins
Director: Franklin David Nin Gracia | Language: Spanish | Duration: 9:40
 
TwinsSynopsis:
This is the story of the adventures of a set of twin brothers who live in the same house but are very different: one brother is homosexual who loves to keep a clean house and the other twin is heterosexual, completely useless and sarcastic who spends his days making fun of his brother.
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Title: Hidden Lives
Director: Camilo A. Vásquez Landestoy | Language: Spanish | Duration: 4:19
 
Vidas Ocultas
Synopsis:

A group of friends are hanging out and sharing a meal as flashbacks about each one of their pasts are shown on the screen. They reveal secrets that none of the friends know about each other.