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‘Possible landscapes’ is a poignant exploration of intergenerational experiences of Caribbean environments, filmed across two seasons in Trinidad and Tobago.

Forty years ago, scholar Philomena Essed sparked fierce public debate with her groundbreaking book, Everyday Racism.

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.

In the mid-1970s, Rico, a 9-year-old Haitian boy, was brutally taken from his native land along with Erzulie, his mother, to a strange planet called Canada.

After being elected to power in 1957, François Duvalier declared himself Haiti’s President for life in 1964, inaugurating one of the most bloodthirsty dictatorships of the 20th century – maintained through violent repression and brutal obscurantism.