Sugar Island

Mar 21, 2025

1h 31m

★ 1.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Guasábara Cine

Tinglado Film

Sugar Island Trailers

Cast

Makenya

Yelidá Díaz

Filomena

Ruth Emeterio

Grandfather

Juan Maria Almonte

Yelidá

Génesis Piñeyro

Leroi

Diógenes Medina

El Vendedor

Francis Cruz

Doctora

Xiomara Rodríguez

Chino en el picapollo

Keven Carvajal

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