May 4, 2017 7:00 pm. Flor de Azúcar (Sugar Fields)dir. Fernando Baez MellaDominican Republic, 2014, 110 minutesSpanish, with English sub-titlesLiving under the brutal dictatorship of Raoul Trujillo in the 1940s, Samuel Mendoza leads a reasonably happy life with his pregnant wife Elena and their child. Generally a kind and gentle man, one night Samuel becomes entangled with a gang of Trujillo's soldiers. In a barroom brawl, Samuel kills one of them, and must flee to a nearby island, where he becomes a fisherman and plans his secret return home.Meanwhile, a separate story involves Haitian Sasa, who along with her husband leaves Haiti on a troubled journey to Santo Domingo in search of work in the cane fields. These two life stories soon intersect in the strange and dark times of Trujillo. Sugar Fields was the Dominican Republic's official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.. 43 Campus Ave.Ottawa, ON K1S..
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