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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.
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.
On December 31st, 1999, the United States officially returned the control of the canal to Panama, honoring the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
What we bury, what we carry, what waits across the sea. Home flickers between places and people, between distance and return.
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.
‘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 […]
Short films from student filmmakers around the Caribbean.
Rooted in local knowledge, and sharpened against systems that mistake extraction for progress. This is land reclaimed as method, as memory, as future.
In a gripping and unpredictable 20-year quest, director Juan Carlos Rodríguez showcases the poignant story of Vieques.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
‘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.