Gerardo Mercedes

Movies

Ambrosia
Evaristo
Lázaro, a terminally ill young man, goes on a journey to find Ambrosía, a mysterious pirate town where death doesn't happen.
Parsley
Lorenzo González
In 1937, near the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a young Haitian woman named Marie is expecting her first child with Frank, her doting Dominican husband. After her mother's burial, she is awakened in the middle of the night by distant screams. The immediate execution of all Haitians on Dominican soil has been ordered — the so-called “Cut” — and what seals a victim’s fate is whether or not they can pronounce "perejil" (parsley). Marie takes off to find Frank in the next town over, with nothing but the clothes on her back.
Candela
Don Polín
The lives of three strangers in Santo Domingo, a girl from high society, a lonesome alcoholic cop and a drag queen cabaret performer; interwine on the eve of a hurricane fallowing the murder of a young poet and drug dealer
Breathless
Coronel Mateo
In the DR, hardened cop Manolo tries to take down an infamous drug cartel; meanwhile, his daughter has fallen in love with Lorenzo, a construction worker who's unwittingly gotten embroiled in the drug cartel's dealings.
The Projectionist
Timo
A lonely man who operates a film projector finds his only solace in a woman he sees on a film reel. After the reel is lost in an accident, he sets out to find the woman through the remotest, poorest places of the Dominican Republic.
Rubirosa
Medic
Story of Porfirio Rubirosa, the Dominican playboy and suspected spy.
La Gunguna
The story of a small .22 caliber gun ties together several episodes involving a cross-section of characters in the Caribbean underworld.