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MORENITA

By Gabriela ORTEGA, Diana VALENCIA

Documentary - Post-Production 2022

Morenita is a genre-mixing visual poetry experience that digs into the bridges and barriers of language, womanhood, ancestral curses and assimilation through the friendship of two Latina immigrants in the US.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama, Experimental
- Countries
- USA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, MEXICO
- Languages
- ENGLISH, SPANISH
- Duration
- 60 mn
- Director(s)
- Gabriela ORTEGA, Diana VALENCIA
- Cast
- Gabriela ORTEGA, Diana VALENCIA
- Producer(s)
- Rafael THOMASETO (DRIVEN EQUATION), Helena SARDINHA (DRIVEN EQUATION)
- Synopsis
- Two women find themselves at a crossroads: one longs to remember home and the other longs to forget it. They meet in the middle, and through a journey of peeling off old skin and returning to their roots, they find that “home” is not always a place. Pushing the genre of cinema-in-verse, Morenita uses raw visuals, hints of magical realism and the power of language to explore the experience of female Latinx immigrants against a changing world. Divided into chapters, the film follows the trials of these two nomadic women who refuse to get lost in translation. The film is a journey into the deepest secrets of the soul, which prove to be far too complex to put into simple words.