Movie
Turba
2025
A slow, sensory plunge into suffering and resistance, felt more as images and bodies than as story.
- Directed by
- Andrés Eduardo Rodríguez, Luis Alejandro Rodríguez
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- María Alejandra Tellis, Merlyn Pirela, Estefany Polo
- Overview
- Six Black women throw themselves overboard to escape a slave ship bound for America. Based on Jericó Montilla's play of the same name (a free adaptation of Fabienne Kanor's Humus), directed by brothers Andrés and Luis Rodríguez. Less narrative than sensation: a visceral, poetic journey about resistance and the search for freedom, shot in Choroní and Caracas under CNAC's "Aprender haciendo" training program. Venezuela, 2025/2026.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Freedom, survival, race, colonialism
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Andrés Eduardo Rodríguez, Luis Alejandro Rodríguez
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- María Alejandra Tellis, Merlyn Pirela, Estefany Polo