Movies: Ricardo Ariel Toribio

After fifteen years in an American jail, a man returns to the Dominican Republic. As he faces family problems, he turns to illegal street fighting and is discovered by an Italian ex-boxer....

Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady client, A...

Remembers an artist in the form of a somnambulistic fantasy: A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominican filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished work....

Olivia & the Clouds explores love's complexities through a Rashomon effect. Olivia, haunted by a past love, hides it under her bed. She trades flowers with this ghost in exchange for comforting rain clouds. Barbara, rejected by Mauricio, escapes real...

A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic, Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’ COCOTE follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returning home to attend his father’s funeral. When he discovers that a powerful local figure is responsible for ...

Through an interviewer played by actress Mariela Guerrero Monegro, 'Rebeca' documents the opinions of people who enjoy the licence to become characters on the occasion of the Dominican Carnival....

A woman in her fifties who works as a maid in a motel, awaits news from her daughter, who lives in Brazil....

Pirín is a metropolitan phenomenon from the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is one of the strongest exponents of marginal art in the country. His form of expression is very personal, he is sincere in his manifestations. However, he coul...

Tormented by violent events, a gavillero goes on the run in search of his freedom....