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Cabañas

Directed by:

Sofía Marcos & Jeissy Trompiz

Produced by:

Marie Jiménez, Jeissy Trompiz & Sofía Marcos

Production Company

Cuaba - Alamar Films - Peixe Aranha Cinema

Contact:

  • Year

    2028

  • Length

    80 mins

  • Country

    DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - VENEZUELA - PORTUGAL / On site

Synopsis

In the Cabañas, extravagant roadside motels in the Dominican Republic, employees clean rooms while recounting stories of their guests. They then turn to the camera to reveal their own longings and quietly stage the desires they have never fulfilled.

  • Sofía

    Marcos

    Director & producer

    Director and DP based between Portugal and Mexico. Through light, she builds atmospheres that invite reflection, exploring identity and collectivity. As DP, her work has screened at Rotterdam, Busan, Havana, Málaga, and LALIFF.

  • Jeissy

    Trompiz

    Director & producer

    Afro-Indigenous director and screenwriter from Maracaibo, Venezuela, and EICTV (Cuba) graduate. His work explores memory, identity, and social transformation. He has taken part in Berlinale Talents, Arché, Eurodoc Caribe–Ji.hlava, Huesca, Havana.

  • Marie

    Jiménez

    Producer

    Born in the Dominican Republic in 1991. Graduated in Fine Arts at Parsons (NYC), documentary at ECIB (Barcelona), and screenwriting at ESTC (Lisbon). Produced short La Xarxa (2019), feature D’Sory (2021), and web series Queer Narratives (2024).

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