Spanning geographies and generations, Richard Fung’s body of work navigates identity, memory, and belonging across Trinidad, Toronto, and beyond. From exploring his Moruga-born mother’s life through the lens of postcolonial […]
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, […]
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.
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.
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 and the clouds’ is a surreal exploration of love's complexities.
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 […]
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 […]
Harold Sonny Ladoo was the first Trinidadian and second Caribbean novelist published in Canada, yet remains little known beyond a circle of devoted readers.
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 […]
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.
On December 31st, 1999, the United States officially returned the control of the canal to Panama, honoring the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
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 […]
An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey...
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 […]
Short films from student filmmakers around the Caribbean.
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 […]