Cinelogue Presents: Afro-indigenous films from Latin America

Cinelogue invites for an evening featuring a screening of Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero, presented as part of Cinelogue’s upcoming film program Material Fabulations: Afro-Indigenous Film Directors from Latin America, curated by Contemporary And América Latina’s Editor-in-Chief Will Furtado and launching on the platform on June 18.

Before the screening, a pre-recorded video by the curator will introduce the film program. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Rehana Esmail (Cinelogue) and filmmaker and researcher Monica Garabito on the themes of Sugar Island and Material Fabulations, exploring how Afro-Indigenous filmmakers across Latin America and the Caribbean are reclaiming narrative space through memory, spirituality, and self-determined forms of storytelling.

This screening and conversation is organized by Cinelogue and Contemporary And América Latina (C&AL).

About the film:
Set within a Dominican sugarcane community, Sugar Island follows Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager whose unexpected pregnancy sparks a personal, social, and spiritual awakening. Blending documentary and fiction, Johanné Gómez Terrero’s film lays bare the colonial legacies embedded within the Caribbean sugar industry and the racial violence faced by Haitian communities in the Dominican Republic. At the same time, the film foregrounds community care, affection, and ancestral spirituality as forms of resistance, tracing how collective memory and Afro-diasporic traditions continue to shape everyday life and survival.

About Cinelogue:
Cinelogue is a curated streaming platform and curatorial initiative that centers cinema from the Global Majority and their diasporas. Working in collaboration with filmmakers, curators, and cultural partners, Cinelogue brings together under-circulated films and situates them within broader social, political, and historical contexts. Alongside streaming film programs, the platform develops editorial texts, and public conversations that engage with cinema as a space for critical reflection and exchange.

Afro-indigenous films from Latin America
26. June 2026
19.00-21.00
For free | For adults | in Spanish/in English

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