Elena (2021)

In 1937 tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army on the basis of antiblack racism Fastforward to 2013 the Dominican Republics Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents retroactive to 1929 rendering more than 200000 people stateless Elena the young protagonist of the film and her family stand to lose their legal residency in the Dominican Republic if they dont manage to get their documents in time Negotiating a mountain of opaque bureaucratic processes and a racist hostile society around Elena becomes the face of the struggle to remain in a country built on the labor of her father and forefathers