The film starring Geraldine Chaplin 'Sand dollars' by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán will represent the Dominican Republic in the Oscar preselection for best film in a foreign language.
The film is endorsed by important competitions such as the Chicago Festival or Havana Festival, in which veteran actress Geraldine Chaplin won the award for best actress.
In addition to Geraldine Chaplin, the film stars the young debutants Yanet Mojica and Ricardo Ariel Toribio. The directors Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán are in charge of the script, adaptation of the homonymous novel by Jean-Noël Pancrazi.
'Sand dollars' tells the story of a A young Dominican woman named Noelí who goes every afternoon to the beaches of Las Terrenas with her boyfriend to try to get some dollars from tourists. There he meets Anne, an older French woman who has found the ideal place to spend her last years on the island. Noelí and her boyfriend pose as brothers and come up with a plan for her to travel to Paris with Anne to send money from there every month.
Eighth participation of the Dominican Republic in the Oscar preselection previously known as the best foreign film since it was shown for the first time in 1983 and the fifth in a row. The country has never gotten the nomination and he hasn't even made the first cut once.