Monikondee
2025-09-26 10:30 - 2025-10-22 12:00 (America/Port_of_Spain) | 4DX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
For centuries, Suriname’s Maroons have preserved ancestral traditions and resisted capitalist encroachment. But climate change and gold mining now threaten their way of life.

The price of love - Cheddi Jagan
2025-09-26 11:30 - 14:00 | Gemstone: Amethyst, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Born on a sugar plantation in rural Guyana to indentured Indian laborers, Cheddi Jagan rose from humble beginnings to become the Western Hemisphere’s first democratically elected Marxist leader.

Olivia + the clouds
2025-09-26 13:00 - 14:30 | 4DX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
‘Olivia and the clouds’ is a surreal exploration of love’s complexities.

Kanaval
2025-09-26 14:30 - 16:30 | IMAX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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. Since their arrival, a distance seems to have grown between mother and son. To regain the love of his mother, Rico will have to understand this New World populated by individuals with strange habits and customs. Fortunately for him, he can count on Kana, his imaginary friend who comes straight out of Haitian mythology.

The enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo
2025-09-26 15:30 - 17:30 | 4DX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Harold Sonny Ladoo was the first Trinidadian and second Caribbean novelist published in Canada, yet remains little known beyond a circle of devoted readers.

Vieques: a living archive
2025-09-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
In a gripping and unpredictable 20-year quest, director Juan Carlos Rodríguez showcases the poignant story of Vieques. Through intimate recollections, community voices, and archival footage, the film exposes the profound hardships endured by Viequenses before and after the US Navy’s departure in 2003, unveiling Vieques’ dire health situation throughout the years.

The Fisherman
2025-09-26 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-28 13:30 - 15:30 | IMAX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
In this Venice Film Festival-winning feast of magical realist comedy, aging Ghanaian, Atta Oko, sets his sights on finally having his own boat and becoming the envy of his village.

The Panama Canal treaties - son of tiger & mule
2025-09-26 18:00 - 2025-10-22 20:00 | Gemstone: Amethyst, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
On December 31st, 1999, the United States officially returned the control of the canal to Panama, honoring the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.

Colosal
2025-09-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
All families keep secrets, says director Nayibe Tavares-Abel. Hers are intimately intertwined with the democratic history of the Dominican Republic. Tavares-Abel is an election observer for the 2020 elections. In May 1990, her grandfather Froilán Tavares, a respected lawyer and president of the Central Electoral Board, was blamed for the electoral fraud that would prolong the authoritarian regime of Joaquín Balaguer. ‘Colossal’ is a portrait of a transgenerational family caught between fear and trauma, and of new generations in search of new paths.

Sugar island
2025-09-26 18:30 - 20:30 | 4DX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey…

Walter Rodney: What they don't want you to know
2025-09-26 21:00 - 22:30 | Gemstone: Amethyst, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of the Empire, and how that connects to the policing and surveillance practices of today, ‘Walter Rodney: what they don’t want you to know’ feeds a growing appetite for history from a different perspective…

Twice into oblivion
2025-09-26 21:00 - 23:00 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island of Quisqueya and a hidden genocide. In 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered the massacre of over 20,000 Haitian immigrants living in the Dominican Republic.

Tongo saa
2025-09-27 13:00 - 14:30 | IMAX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Kinshasa, the capital city of 17 million people, is plunged into darkness and insecurity as its inhabitants struggle to access the light.

Monikondee
2025-09-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
For centuries, Suriname’s Maroons have preserved ancestral traditions and resisted capitalist encroachment.

Isla familia
2025-09-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
‘Isla familia’ follows independent journalist Abraham Jiménez Enoa over three years, from the arrival of the Covid pandemic in Cuba through his political exile in Spain.

L'Homme-Vertige: Tales of a city
2025-09-27 18:30 - 20:00 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
In her solitude in the city of Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, filmmaker Malaury Eloi Paisley spends five years filming her relationship with people wandering in different worlds of the city.

The enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo
2025-09-27 18:30 - 20:30 | IMAX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

All we imagine as light/ special presentation
2025-09-27 20:30 - 22:30 | 4DX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2024, ‘All we imagine as light’ is a luminous debut fiction feature by Payal Kapadia that captures the quiet resilience of women navigating life in contemporary Mumbai.

Bionico’s Bachata
2025-09-27 21:00 - 22:30 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
A raw vision of love in a hostile Caribbean city, ‘Bionico’s Bachata’ follows a hopeless romantic, addicted to crack, who must take control of his life if he wants to marry the woman he loves.

The Panama Canal Treaties – Son of Tiger & Mule
2025-09-28 10:30 - 12:30 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
On December 31st, 1999, the United States officially returned the control of the canal to Panama, honoring the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. Behind the historic signing lay a complex web of international diplomacy and intrigue, steered by General Omar Torrijos.

Olivia and the clouds
2025-09-28 11:00 - 12:30 | IMAX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Possible landscapes
2025-09-28 12:30 - 14:30 | 4DX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
‘Possible landscapes’ is a poignant exploration of intergenerational experiences of Caribbean environments, filmed across two seasons in Trinidad and Tobago.

Colosal
2025-09-28 13:00 - 14:30 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
All families keep secrets, says director Nayibe Tavares-Abel. Hers are intimately intertwined with the democratic history of the Dominican Republic.

The Disappearance of Miss Scott
2025-09-28 16:30 - 18:00 | IMAX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
‘The Disappearance of Miss Scott’ is an intimate and urgent reclamation of the life and legacy of Hazel Scott – Trinidadian born, virtuoso pianist, Hollywood trailblazer, civil rights crusader, and the first Black person to host a nationally syndicated television show.

The True Chronicles Of The Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital From The Last Century When Dr Frantz Fanon was Head of Fifth Ward Between 1953 & 1956/ special presentation
2025-09-28 17:30 - 19:00 | 4DX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
In 1953, colonized Algeria, Fanon, a young black psychiatrist, was appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital.

1964: Simityè Kamoken
2025-09-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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.

A mother apart
2025-09-28 19:00 - 20:30 | IMAX Cinema, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you?

Everyday dignity: Philomena Essed
2025-09-29 11:00 - 12:30 | Gemstone: Amethyst, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Forty years ago, scholar Philomena Essed sparked fierce public debate with her groundbreaking book, Everyday Racism.

Sugar island
2025-09-29 11:30 - 13:30 | Gemstone: Azure, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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.
