te amo tanto pero eres tan difícil

Through a collaborative art performance and open dialogue, a daughter-mother duo navigate the delicate balance between love, resentment, and inherited trauma, all framed against archival footage of a road trip marking her first return to the Dominican Republic in over a decade.

Te Amo Tanto Pero Eres Tan Dificíl was an official selection of Third Horizon Film Festival at the Perez Art Museum (PAMM) where a work-in-progress was showcased before its world premiere at True/False Film Festival (2025) and continues it’s festival run at the 42nd edition of Miami Film Festival in April.

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te amo tanto pero eres tan difícil

i love you so much but you are so difficult

This work is commissioned by the Forward Fellowship Grant and made possible with support from the Knight Foundation and JustFilms Ford Foundation. This story starts after ten years of undocumentation prevented her from leaving the U.S.

BTS photos: Alicia Vera