José Maria Cabral / 2022 / Dominican Republic / Drama / 85 min / Spanish
Haitian Maria is nine months pregnant with her Dominican husband Frank and lives in the Dominican Republic near the border with Haiti. When dictator Rafael Trujillo orders the mass murder of Haitians in 1937, she is forced to flee. Vulnerable and reliant on the goodwill of others, she searches for her husband while witnessing the cruelties around her and fighting for her life. Through Maria’s eyes, Dominican director José María Cabral intimately depicts this brutal but rarely discussed historical chapter in the country’s history when thousands of Haitians and dark-skinned Dominicans were killed. At last year’s Miami Film Festival, “Parsley” won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.
