BREAK THE FRAME
Form cracks. Intimacies misbehave. What doesn’t fit gets louder. What doesn’t bend, breaks back.
$40
14 events found.
TTFF/25
Events for September 25, 2025
PROCESS
Memory doesn’t always arrive whole, sometimes it’s passed down in sketches, stitches, and scraps of unfinished stories. These films trace artistic legacies through hands, homes, and histories, revealing how creation […]
$40
FILM SCHOOL SHORTS 2
Short films from student filmmakers around the Caribbean.
$40
Nocturnes/ special presentation
A hushed marvel of observational cinema, ‘Nocturnes’ invites viewers into the shadowy, flickering world of moths in the Eastern Himalayas, a remote ecological hotspot along the India-Bhutan border. With mesmeric […]
$60
Twice into oblivion
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 […]
$40
Carnival: They Can’t steal our Joy
In the 18th century, enslaved Africans on an Island in the Caribbean revolted to fight for their freedom by using their forbidden cultural rituals and folklores, that creative resistance movement […]
$40
GROW
Rooted in local knowledge, and sharpened against systems that mistake extraction for progress. This is land reclaimed as method, as memory, as future.
$40
Everyday dignity: Philomena Essed
Forty years ago, scholar Philomena Essed sparked fierce public debate with her groundbreaking book, Everyday Racism. Once seen as controversial, the work is now recognised as a foundational text in […]
$40
HOLDING ON
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.
$40
STRIDE: films from Trinidad and Tobago
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 […]
$40
Possible landscapes
‘Possible landscapes’ is a poignant exploration of intergenerational experiences of Caribbean environments, filmed across two seasons in Trinidad and Tobago. Across sugarcane fields, steep hillsides, on fishing boats and through […]
$40
A mother apart
How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin, renowned for performances […]
$40
TTFF/25 Gala Screening: ‘Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story’
Join us for the Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival’s 2025 gala screening of ‘Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story’, directed by award-winning filmmaker Alison Duke. Share an unforgettable evening celebrating the music of Jamaican dancehall legend Sister Nancy, creator of the iconic anthem “Bam Bam.”
$200
UNWRITTEN
They weren’t written in, so they write themselves back. Across borders, timelines, and bloodlines, these works hold the line between silence and citation
$40