Agridulce Film

In the Dominican town of Cabarete, bachata is a way of life far from the dance halls it occupies overseas. A portrait of four children, each confronting challenges, Agridulce shows how music guides their self discovery.

Generations collide, and the children search for balance in a world troubled by conflict, migration and cycles of marginalization. Along the way, they’re mentored by teachers of a music school devoted to bachata, the once denigrated music that has become the Dominican Republic’s primary cultural export.

With five years of filming, director Frank Pavich (Jodorowsky’s Dune, Cannes 2013) intimately captures pivotal moments of the children’s coming of age.

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