The evangelical Alberto Almonte works as a gardener for a rich family in the Dominican capital of Santo
Through his protagonists, Nelson De Los Santos Arias shows, with an ethnographic and artistic eye for detail, a country where old rituals and the established order clash with moral and social change. The award-winning Cocote is largely filmed on 35mm, juxtaposed with video fragments of disturbances and religious gatherings.
With powerful visual contrast and a pulsing soundtrack, the director investigates the restless emotional landscape of his homeland, imprisoned in a spiral of corruption and violence, where class contrasts and religious quarrels heat tempers.
Film details
- Argentina, Dominican Republic, Germany, Qatar
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 106"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
You may also like this
-
Resurrection
Impeccable slow cinema. Johan Leysen makes a great impression as a hermit who finds a half-naked young man in the forest and faces a moral dilemma. Hi
-
Guarda in alto
You go to take a cigarette break on a rooftop in Rome and then an adventure starts that would surprise even Alice (of Wonderland fame). The amazing im
-
Ella und Nell
Two women in their forties from Berlin go hiking and camping in the mountains on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic. What starts as a c