De Sicilia a Santo Domingo

The Dominican Film Festival celebrates the best in Dominican Cinema with the goal to enrich the artistic experience of New York's diverse cultural audience.The Dominican Film Festival's mission is to promote the new generation of Dominican filmmakers as well as the established one, its film industry, and to strengthen the vital and expanding economic and cultural relationship with the United States.We also aim to keep New York City audiences informed about the Dominican Cinema and its relation to the history, politics and social life of this country, as treated by the film makers, through the subjects and aesthetic approach they focus on.

Dominican Film Festival in New York

The story and sociopolitical circumstances around the filming of "The Godfather Part II" in the Dominican Republic.

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Dominican Film Festival 2025

Film Screening for  the Dominican Film Festival 2025

Estreno internacionalGÉNERO: DocumentalDIRECTOR: Pablo LozanoPRODUCTOR(ES): Sky FilmsSINOPSIS DE LA PELÍCULA: Hace cincuenta años, una de las mejores películas de todos los tiempos, El Padrino II, se filmó parcialmente en República Dominicana. Pero ¿cómo sucedió esto? ¿Qué fuerzas globales y locales se alinearon para hacerlo posible? Este documental desentraña las conexiones ocultas entre la mafia y el Caribe, estableciendo paralelismos entre la migración dominicana a Nueva York y la experiencia italiana un siglo antes. Explora el ascenso y la caída de la Cosa Nostra en Estados Unidos, utilizando El Padrino II como lente para examinar el poder, el exilio y el legado. Una historia política y familiar que aún se está escribiendo. International PremiereGENRE: Documentary DIRECTOR: Pablo Lozano MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Fifty years ago, one of the greatest films of all time, The Godfather Part II, was partially filmed in the Dominican Republic. But how did this happen? What global and local forces aligned to make it possible? This documentary unravels the hidden connections between the Mafia and the Caribbean, drawing parallels between Dominican migration to New York and the Italian experience a century earlier. It explores the rise and fall of Cosa Nostra in the U.S. while using The Godfather Part II as a lens to examine power, exile, and legacy. A political and familial history that is still being written.

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