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4DX Cinema One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and TobagoRooted in local knowledge, and sharpened against systems that mistake extraction for progress. This is land reclaimed as method, as memory, as future.
Rooted in local knowledge, and sharpened against systems that mistake extraction for progress. This is land reclaimed as method, as memory, as future.
Coastal and rural workers are being squeezed out of the futures they’ve sustained for generations. This programme invites a reckoning: not with loss, but with the systems making survival impossible.
Art becomes motion, and motion becomes a way to name where a nation stands and where it insists on going. There is a movement – finding stride through arts, finding stride as a nation.
They weren’t written in, so they write themselves back. Across borders, timelines, and bloodlines, these works hold the line between silence and citation
Play isn’t an escape - it’s how you fight back, stitch joy into the cracks, and turn survival into style. Skating, bubbling, strutting, remembering, each act a form of improvisation, a claim to space, a refusal to vanish. From carnival queens to shuttered community centers, this is play as pulse, protest, and possibility.
Coastal and rural workers are being squeezed out of the futures they’ve sustained for generations. This programme invites a reckoning: not with loss, but with the systems making survival impossible.
Orishas ride the tide. Trees speak in tongues. Flesh and bone, moving with the breath of ancestors and the pull of root systems older than written word. The body leans in. Our breath collective. The land holds us.
Short films from student filmmakers around the Caribbean.
Short films from student filmmakers around the Caribbean
A star child, a forest spirit, a goat on a quest, nothing here stays ordinary for long. These tales open portals through difference, and fear, where magic isn’t an escape, but a way to face the world. Wonder is serious business.
Art becomes motion, and motion becomes a way to name where a nation stands and where it insists on going. There is a movement – finding stride through arts, finding stride as a nation.
The Retrospective programme centres and celebrates the film work of trailblazing Caribbean makers. For TTFF/25 we honour Trinidad and Tobago/Canada filmmaker, Richard Fung.