Sugar Island

Johanné Gómez Terrero takes a teenage mother’s reluctant journey into adulthood and spirals it into mysterious explorations of colonialism and roots of identity with a gorgeous visual palette. Thoughtful filmmaking that earns its enigmatic qualities.

CalvinLaw

— Este niño no va a tener papeles como nosotras — — Es niña — Yo, pensando entre sollozos, enojo, hambre y bocetos borrosos de recuerdos con gente que muere y a nadie les duelen: que sea mujer y nazca, es peor, aunque haya esperanza, como el cine que ahora me abraza,…

Ámbar Lugo (Luam, Electra)

Amazing pictorial and visual sense in a tale that’s merely content to cross off all the discussion points from its postcolonial studies bingo list.

PowWow

fascinating fabulation of situations which are very real in time and history. stunning movement between the primary narrative space and the film’s spaces of critical thinkings

louise

Weaving between the story of Makenya, a Black teenager without papers living on a Batey with her mother and grandfather, and meta-textual vignettes of Makenya and her friends adorned in flowing pleated dresses, scrubbing themselves with sugar, delivering monologues about…

Popcorn Wallace

guys the venice film festival is almost over and I watched very few movies with an actual plot :(

ubeequitouskiss

A non self-centered coming of age story, where instead of realising who she wants to be, she realises the lasting consequences colonialism has had on her country and how that will shape her existence

Thomás

Sugar Island boasts some great cinematography, and there's a deep honesty to a lot of the environments and some of the dynamics, but I'm gonna be blunt with the very little it leaves me to say - this did not work for me. And that's primarily because of how little I…

Ben

Documentario super importante, ma la cosa migliore è stata essere seduto accanto a Gianni Canova durante la proiezione.

Francesco F.