Berlin-based ArtHood Entertainment has picked up worldwide sales rights to Dominican drama \u201cNo salgas\u201d (\u201cDon\u2019t Come Out\u201d) ahead of its Berlinale Generation premiere.<\/p>\n
The queer coming-of-age horror pic, which stars Camila Issa (seen in Nickelodeon\u2019s \u201cAre You Afraid of the Dark\u201d), Cecile van Welie (San Sebastian\u2019s New Directors Award winner \u201cCarajita\u201d) and Camila Santana (\u201cRamona\u201d), follows Liz (Van Welie), a college Med student who is struggling with her sexual identity in a highly conservative Dominican Republic. An evil supernatural force begins to target people close to her.<\/p>\n
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The story begins with two teens fleeing into the night where one is killed by her possessed mother. A year later, grief and desire resurface on a memorial trip as the force turns friends violent.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo salgas\u201d marks the directorial fiction feature debut for Victoria Linares, known for her neo-realist docu-fiction hybrid, \u201cRamona,\u201d which also world premiered at the Berlinale\u2019s Generation sidebar. It went on to win the Grand Prix Documentaire at Cin\u00e9latino 2024 and land at indie streaming platform Mubi.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dynamics of coexistence and power have always favored a heteronormative society. The Dominican Republic is highly conservative, which only highlights the inadequacy of the concept of an \u2018ally,\u2019 an idea that in \u2018No salgas\u2019 is more performative than supportive, and often does not stem from genuine understanding, but from reflexive tolerance,\u201d said Linares in her director\u2019s statement. \u201cThe ally can be understanding and, at the same time, contribute, out of ignorance, to oppressive social environments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are truly excited to work on \u2018No salgas,\u2019 it is such an impressive film that haunted us for a while after watching it,\u00a0not what we would expect from Generation. Victoria is a very talented director with a brilliant future ahead and with her powerful and gripping film she managed to combine artistic qualities with festival and commercial potential.\u00a0 She is extremely smart in using horror to elaborate on the conservative Dominican society. It is definitely a film that cannot be missed at Berlinale: entertaining,\u00a0relevant\u00a0and universal,\u201d said Arthood\u2019s Manola Novelli.<\/p>\n
The LGBTQ-themed horror pic brings to mind a similar Latin American film that employed the horror genre to comment on the realities of a society: Jayro Bustamante\u2019s \u201cLa Llorona.\u201d In this acclaimed Guatemalan drama, Bustamante interweaves a fictional horror format to shed light on the atrocities committed by the local military in the 1980s.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo salgas\u201d is produced by writer-producer Carlos Marranzini, Jos\u00e9 Jim\u00e9nez and Linares. El Perro de Argento, the Dominican Republic-based production company founded by Linares and Carlos Marranzini, holds the sales rights to the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n
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