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Yubarta
Project type
Documentary feature
Role
Director, screenwriter, prop-maker
Status
In development
Date
2027
Location
Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Haiti, Occupied Palestine.
Labs
• Australab Tres Puertos Residency (Costa Rica 2023)
• ACAMPADOC Residency (Panama 2023)
• FIFAC Residency and Pitch Sessions (French Guiana 2023)
• MiradasDoc Teaser Workshop (Spain 2024)
Grants
• IFF Panamá Su Mirada Development Fund 2025
• FONPROCINE Development Fund in 2025
Yubarta is a first-person documentary that incorporates stop-motion animation, press footage, documentary scenes filmed in the present, and family archives.
Director, Nayibe Tavares-Abel, and co-writer, Louvenson Saint-Juste, create a stopmotion animation of Nayibe's great grandfather Muhammed migration story. Now called "Mahoma", this young Palestinian man migrated to the Caribbean over a century ago. Louvenson, a Haitian artist in the Dominican R., retells his own migration story.
