Yoel Morales

Directing

Yoel Morales

Born

1989-12-22 (36)

Place of birth

San Cristóbal, República Dominicana

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Yoel Morales (born December 22, 1989) is a Dominican film director, editor and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with Azul Magia (2017). His film La Bachata de Biónico (2024) premiered at the SXSW Film & TV Festival, winning the Audience Award, and was later selected for the Locarno Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. He also directed Carlota la Más Barrial (2025) and Medias Hermanas (2025). He is co-founder of the Caribbean creative collective Mentes Fritas.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Medias Hermanas poster
7.0

Two feuding half-sisters will have to spend New Year's Eve together at their late father's beach house.

Medias Hermanas

2025

Azul Magia poster
4.0

Moises goes to the forest in search of a fruit that will heal his sick mother. During his search he encounters a strange girl who promises to help in exchange of protection from an evil monster haunting her.

Azul Magia

2017

Azul Magia poster
4.0

Moises goes to the forest in search of a fruit that will heal his sick mother. During his search he encounters a strange girl who promises to help in exchange of protection from an evil monster haunting her.

Azul Magia

2017

Ha sido un placer poster
NR

A young couple decides to go to a river avoiding city chaos, because that day the end of the world has been announced.

Ha sido un placer

2015

Ha sido un placer poster
NR

A young couple decides to go to a river avoiding city chaos, because that day the end of the world has been announced.

Ha sido un placer

2015

Ha sido un placer poster
NR

A young couple decides to go to a river avoiding city chaos, because that day the end of the world has been announced.

Ha sido un placer

2015

Bionico's Bachata poster
NR

Bionico is a hopeless romantic, and also addicted to crack, who must take control of his life before his fiancée leaves a rehabilitation center. It's a raw vision of love in a hostile Caribbean city.

Bionico's Bachata

2025

Bionico's Bachata poster
NR

Bionico is a hopeless romantic, and also addicted to crack, who must take control of his life before his fiancée leaves a rehabilitation center. It's a raw vision of love in a hostile Caribbean city.

Bionico's Bachata

2025

Carlota la Más Barrial poster
NR

Carlota, a fierce woman with a unibrow, a quick tongue and a fearless heart, leads her neighborhood in resisting a gang trying to take over with violence and fear.

Carlota la Más Barrial

2025