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Sugar island

Name: Sugar island
Start: 2025-09-29T11:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-29T13:30:00-04:00
Location: Gemstone: Azure

Monday, September 29, 2025 | 11:30 am

Director present

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.

Event Details

Date: September 29, 2025

Time: 11:30 am

Category : Screening

Organizer: TTFF

Venue: Gemstone: Azure

One Woodbrook Place
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Ticket price: $40

Details

Date: September 29, 2025
Time:
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Cost: $40
Event Category: Screening
Event Tags:Caribbean filmmakers, Caribbean films, Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, TTFF/25

Organizer

TTFF

Venue

Gemstone: Azure
One Woodbrook Place
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago + Google Map

Film Details

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields. A serpent appears in her path. It is the embodiment of The Mysteriouss, entities that guide her towards recognizing her earthly power and her awareness in a parallel and Afro-futuristic dimension.

Film page: Sugar island

Director: Johanné Gómez Terrero
Producer:
Language: Spanish with subtitles
Year: 2024
Country: Dominican Republic

Genre: Fantasy
Type: Narrative
Length: Feature
Runtime: 91