Flavors & Rhythms Tour – Las Terrenas A Curated Cultural Immersion Experience During The Alma Film Festival Connecting Visitors to the Heart of the Dominican Republic
- Tropical fruit tasting and welcome at a traditional fruit stand
- Meet-and-greet with a local visual artist exploring art, identity, and community
- Live demonstration by Dominican musicians and dancers
- Traditional Bachata dance class
- Artisanal ice cream tasting with the entrepreneur behind the brand
- Visit to a local fish market with fishermen sharing traditional techniques
- Typical Dominican seafood lunch by the sea
- Mamajuana tasting (traditional Dominican herbal liquor)
- La Frutera (The Fruit Stand)
- Fresh tropical fruit tasting and official welcome to the cultural route.
- Urban Art & Local Artist Encounter
- An intimate conversation about art, identity, and community impact in Las Terrenas.
- Dominican Music & Dance Activation
- Live performance by local musicians and dancers, followed by a guided Bachata class.
- Artisanal Ice Cream Experience
- Taste traditional ice cream flavors while hearing the entrepreneurial story behind the business.
- Local Fish Market Visit
- Engage with local fishermen and learn about traditional techniques and coastal community life.
- Typical Beach Lunch & Mamajuana Tasting
- A traditional Dominican seafood lunch served by the sea, accompanied by Mamajuana tasting.
About the Alma Film Festival
The Alma Film Festival was created in response to structural gaps in the global film ecosystem. By design, it is a next-generation destination, experience-based film festival and cultural convening—one that functions as a cultural intelligence engine, bringing together filmmakers, scholars, technologists, artists, institutions, and audiences from across the Global South and its diasporas.
Rooted in scholarship, innovation, and deep audience engagement, Alma prioritizes fewer films with greater intentionality, creating space for meaningful dialogue, relationship-building, and long-term collaboration. With up to 80% of the program dedicated to Global South cinema, the festival showcases narrative features, documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental works, audio storytelling, and new media—centering films that engage cultural memory, social relevance, and creative innovation.
Programming is curated in partnership with global entities and agencies, reinforcing Alma’s role as a platform for shared authorship rather than extraction. Through this approach, the festival has cultivated a global community of stakeholders spanning more than 51 cities across 35 countries.
Beyond screenings, Alma integrates fellowships, symposia, performance laboratories, editorial platforms, and emerging technologies—positioning the festival not simply as an event, but as an ecosystem. Guided by the principle “The Necessity of Something New,” the Alma Film Festival advances cultural diplomacy, fosters cross-regional collaboration, and contributes to the development of sustainable creative economies worldwide.
At its core, the Alma Film Festival is a global gathering designed to nurture both ideas and people. It embraces a kaleidoscope of cultures while intentionally shifting the social dynamic from competition to connection—creating space for collaboration, understanding, and shared growth. Alma moves us from extraction to exchange, from visibility to value, and from presence to purpose.
We are doing something new.
There is a necessity for something new.
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