PLATANERO
Year
2025
Runtime
25 mins
Language
Haitian, Spanish
Subtitles
English
Alberta Premiere
This short film is included in the following package(s): SHORTS: NIGHT CRAWLING
The film follows two Haitian brothers living in a shantytown in the Dominican Republic. Undocumented, they face relentless violence and the ever-present threat of deportation. Desperation forces the brothers to steal what they need to survive, all the while being stalked by a mysterious beast.
Countries
Canada- Festivals
- Festival REGARD, Sundance Film Festival
- Director
- Juan Frank Hernandez
- Producer
- Laurence Ly, Béatrice Moukhaiber
- Screenwriter
- Juan Frank Hernandez, Vincent Labelle
- Cinematographer
- Benoît Jones-Vallée
- Editor
- Marianne Langston
- Music
- Maxime Fortin
- Cast
- Irdens Exantus, Stanley Exantus, Jonathan Saint-Armand, Ramón Emilio Candelario, José María Cabral