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BBFC Ratingf-rated FilmBFF: Carajita

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CertificateNot Rated
Year2021
GenreDrama
Director(s) Ulises Porra, Silvina Schnicer
Writer(s)Ulises Porra, Ulla Prida, Silvina Schnicer
LanguageSpanish
CountryDominican Republic, Argentina
Running Time1HR 26MINS
SeasonBelfast Film Festival

Enigmatic, and edged in a dreamlike, sensual surreality, the second feature from directing duo Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra (Tigre) is a superbly acted masterclass in delivering scathing social observation in a powerfully poetic way.

Daughter of bourgeois privilege Sara and her Black nanny Yarisa have a loving mother-child-style relationship that seems to exist beyond the various class and ethnicity barriers that separate them. But when Sara's family returns to the Dominican Republic, where Yarisa had left her real daughter, Mallory, several years before, fissures in their relationship appear. Mallory's arrival then sets off a chain of events that will culminate in a tragedy that widens those fissures to a seismic crack – or perhaps that simply reveals the chasm that had been there all along.

The International Competition is sponsored by Yellow Moon.

Screening as part of the 22nd Belfast Film Festival. Please note: all tickets are sold via the Belfast Film Festival box office. If you have any access requirements please get in touch with the box office before booking: boxoffice@belfastfilmfestival.org.

For more information about the festival please visit belfastfilmfestival.org.


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