El Báka (The Baká)

This production explores the figure of the Baká, a feared and mysterious creature from Dominican culture, and examines its connection to popular magico-religious beliefs which, although sometimes hidden or downplayed, remain alive in the country’s collective memory.

​The story follows Luis, a deeply religious farmer living in the south of the Dominican Republic, who decides to seek the help of a Baká in order to escape poverty after the birth of his first child.