Carajita

[Plays 5/10 at 4:30 p.m. and 5/16 at 1:50 p.m. as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] After a naïve, free-spirited teenager (Cecile van Welie), whose father (Richard Douglas) is a wealthy businessman, returns to their coastal hometown in the Dominican Republic with her family and close, longtime nanny (Magnolia Núñez) where her caretaker's estranged, biological teenage daughter (Adelanny Padilla) lives, and when a terrible, tragic death occurs during an accident on a goat-filled road in Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra's award-winning, taut, moving, well-acted, heartbreaking, 89-minute film, tensions escalate, trusts waiver, and a guilty conscience strains the tenuous relationships of all involved.
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