Julia Alvarez

Children wonder what happens to their loved ones after death.

Una profesora de literatura intenta redescubrir quién es después de la repentina muerte de su marido, incluso cuando una serie de sacudidas familiares y políticas la obligan a preguntarse qué debemos a los que están en crisis en nuestra familia, biológicos o de otro tipo.

Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tía Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that when her visa expires, the whole town turns out to support her.

A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.

Retellling of the Dominican folk character, La Vieja Belén, who leaves gifts for poor children a week after the Feast of the Epiphany. El cuento de La Vieja Belén, personaje del folclor dominicano who deja regalos para los niños pobres la semana después de la Epifanía.

MASSACRE RIVER is a character-driven documentary that takes place in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, two ethnically and culturally distinct countries that have been forced to share an island since colonial times. The film follows Pikilina, a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent, and her family. Racial and political violence erupt when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic, reverses its birthright citizenship law and she is left stateless,...