Name: Sugar Island
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-12-13
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 1

Sugar Island

Audience

About

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.

Box Office

$2K

Director

Johanne Gómez Terrero

Producers

Fernando Santos Diaz, David Baute, Gabriel Valencia

Studio

Guasábara Cine, Tinglado Film

Original Language

Spanish

Keywords

migration ritual spirituality hair burden haitian colonialism social activism unwanted pregnancy motherhood woman director enslavement dominican sugarcane granddaughter juxtapositions queer black identity prose youth latin american teenager sugar