Tormented by bloody events, a gavillero—a member of the guerilla movement that fought against the occupation of the Dominican Republic by the United States between 1917 and 1922—goes on the run in search of his freedom.
This film screens as part of the shorts program History Is Written at Night.
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Ricardo Ariel Toribio (b. 1993) is a musician, actor, writer, and filmmaker. In 2018 he graduated from the Altos de Chavón Film School in the Dominican Republic, and in 2022 his short film Un Gavillero en la Sierra premiered. He is a co-founder of the project The Weavers (Los Tejedores), and in 2021 published a book analyzing the weaving culture in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
