Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen – Sugar Island Screening

Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 6:00 PM (doors at 5:30 PM)
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

FREE / RSVP

Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen presents a screening of Johanné Gómez Terrero's Sugar Island (2024), a powerful Afro-diasporic film exploring Black womanhood, migration, labor, and belonging in the Dominican Republic. The screening will be introduced by the Akojo Film Collective (Kika Memeh and SCA alumnus Ogheneofegor Obuwoma).

The film follows Makenya, a young Haitian-Dominican woman whose unexpected pregnancy reveals how law, labor, and nationality shape who is allowed to belong. As her grandfather protests the exploitation of sugar plantation workers, Makenya’s journey into womanhood becomes a site of resistance, desire, and self-determination.

Blending realism with spiritual and communal ceremony, Sugar Island reflects on displacement, undocumented life, and the legacy of extraction across generations.

Curated as part of Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen by Gallery Gachet in collaboration with Akojo Film Collective, this screening situates Sugar Island within a broader inquiry into how Black femme bodies are framed, consumed, and controlled, and how women rewrite the conditions of their becoming through care, refusal, and collective imagination. For the full list of films in the Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen series, please visit HERE.

CONTENT ADVISORY: AGE 16+ This film contains mature themes, including pregnancy, sexuality, displacement, and labor exploitation. Some viewers may find certain scenes emotionally intense.

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