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VENICE 2024 Giornate degli Autori

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island

"Slavery and sugar are intrinsically linked"

by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Afro-diasporic director whisks the viewer away to the sugar-cane plantations where a young woman gets pregnant too early

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With her first fiction feature Sugar Island [+see also:
film review
interview: Johanné Gómez Terrero
film profile], Afro-diasporic director Johanné Gómez Terrero whisks the viewer away to the sugar-cane plantations where the slave workers have no possessions other than their own arms, and where a young woman gets pregnant too early. The film is in competition in the 21st Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival.

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