CARAJITA Trailer – 2022 AFI Latin American Film Festival

The second feature by Argentine-Spanish directing duo Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra (TIGRE), CARAJITA is a psychological thriller that bends toward social horror in its pointed critique of the class structures and legacy of colonialism in the Dominican Republic. When teenager Sara (Cecile van Welie, MIRIAM LIES) and her wealthy family move back to the coastal town of Las Terrenas after several years away, her nanny — and the family's de facto housekeeper — Yarisa (Magnolia Núñez, who won the Best Actress prize at the 2022 Guadalajara International Film Festival for the role), returns with them. Having left her home and her biological daughter Mallory (Adelanny Padilla) years earlier to continue caring for Sara and her family, Yarisa's return is bittersweet for her own family, including Mallory, who strikes up an uneasy friendship with Sara and is welcomed into the teen's privileged social circle. When Mallory goes missing, Sara's naïve ideas about race, class and family are hauntingly laid bare, as unspoken inequalities and the impunity of wealth and privilege are exposed. Winner, Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Director and Best Actress (Magnolia Núñez), 2022 Guadalajara International Film Festival; Winner, WarnerMedia Ibero-American Feature Film Award, 2022 Miami Film Festival; Winner, New Directors Award, 2021 San Sebastián International Film Festival. DIR/SCR Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra; SCR/PROD Ulla Prida; PROD Federico Eibuszyc, Alexandra Guerrero, Bárbara Sarasola-Day. Dominican Republic/Argentina, 2021, color, 89 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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