In a country of consensus denying its structural racism, Swiss black women share their most intimate traumas and identity quests and raise their voices.
Unbeknownst to him, a family man’s job is in danger due to his poor performance at work. Will the help of his best friend make the situation better?
Sara is aged 16 and likes to dance. One night, after Carnival dance practice, Sara is kidnapped. One year later, nobody knows where Sara is. All the while, Sara has been trying unsuccessfully to escape her kidnapper.
A young cart driver in Dakar is robbed by a succession of dishonest passengers. When his cart is confiscated by the police, he loses not only his means of livelihood but his sole claim to self-respect in an exploited and poverty-ridden community.
In her film, 13-year-old Ndèye Fatou Fall tells how her life has been affected by profound changes that occurred in her village a few years before she was born.
Documentary footage of a Women’s Conference in Senegal.
A domineering mother, a religious sect, a failed romance and a pregnancy lead to tragic events for a disturbed woman
It tells the story of a young woman, Glenda, who lives in a wooden house on the beach. She survives on fish, water and memories. Her search for herself is an intricate game of coping with the past and luring the infinite future.
In this beautifully observed film, we follow Mark, a lonely young man in search of happiness. Through his daily encounters, he struggles with his desires and his fears, until at last he is forced to come face to face with himself.
An inside look at the Aruban lifestyle as we take you on a visual adventure where you get to experience the local perspective of the island.
The story of a nightclub toilet attendant in a fictional club based on the Shimmy Club in Glasgow. Her conflicted journey is spliced with flashbacks to the toilets of the Shrine nightclub in Lagos, Nigeria, where her younger self dreams of becoming a dancer in the revolutionary band of the late Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti.
A young interracial couple playfully discharges the disapproval of a nosy citizen.
From as long as time, persons have been living on the streets, some of them as a result of mental health and others because they are not welcomed at home by relatives after spending times in prison or having been deported. The film shares the stories of five people living on the streets of Georgetown.
A young man is mourning the death of his grandmother, until he makes a “discovery,” in a book she left behind.
A young creator struggles to complete a project. Through his attempts at perseverance, he learns it may sometimes be necessary to take a break or a few steps back, in order to move forward.
After receiving an initial cut on his upper torso, Geof manages to escape a savage group. He flees the angry, weapon-wielding group, but his quest for freedom is short-lived.
A young girl eagerly anticipates meeting the man of her dreams.
A visual reflection on exactly where your enemy really resides.
A news anchor reports that several people have gone missing, insinuating that these people have been kidnapped, and hinted at the work of a possible serial kidnapper in the Georgetown area. After she reports this news, she rushes home and is distraught by the missing persons and the usual procedures of life in a pandemic. Suddenly, she hears a noise that frightens her and checks to see what occurred. Unfortunately, the people that were missing were closer than many thought.
A young father struggles to find a way back home to his family amidst closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Enry is a scrap metal collector, leading a solitary existence on the edge of the sprawling Riverton City landfill. As he prepares to take advantage of a rare and promising opportunity, disaster strikes, forcing him to vacate his home. On the advice of a sinister friend, Enry travels out of town for a job which promises to provide a spark of hope. On this journey he finds something greater than he could ever imagine.
The story of Joel, a man who feels he is living on the edge of sanity. He feels he is about to fall into a pit of total and complete despair, from which he will never return. As miserable as his life generally is, on this particular day, it is about to take a turn for the “worst.” Today, Joel receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, who offers him a chance to make it all better … at a cost.
The story of Deacon Paul Bogle. 30 years after the end of slavery in Jamaica, the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865 provoked outrage in Victorian Britain shaping race and land attitudes. The story is constructed using extensive interviews with Paul Bogle's grand son as well as archive material.
Ronnie, a first-generation Jamaican- American begins to question her identity after a conversation during her tennis practice.
With a vigilante crowd and the police on his tail a gunman seeks refuge in the neighborhood church. Will Randy find redemption or is it too late? Sunday is a look at salvation among imperfect circumstances.
A local MP is found murdered. Akeem is on the run and a mob from his very own community wants to show him how they feel.
When Patasha is called upon to make a routine delivery to a young tourist couple, she encounters a situation that will test her morality. The young spear-fisherman Samson also wants to make a transaction, but this one is of a more sinister nature. Coast is an examination of choices, and how ugly or stunningly beautiful this island can truly be.
At a glance, Susan is a quiet, pensive housecleaner who takes her job seriously. A single phone call is all she needs to clean up the mess and leave things pristine. But, initial impressions rarely, if ever, give the full scope of a person—especially in the case of Susan.
7 Films, 6 Directors, 1 Island.... Jamaica. Moving from the majestic Blue Mountains, to the gritty ghetto, to the stunning north coast, and spinning stories funny, suspenseful, thrilling and poignant, this is a cinematic mosaic as diverse and complex as the island that inspired it.
A young girl from the underclass and on the brink of womanhood, works at a resort where she witnesses tourists’ affluence on a daily basis. As the de facto breadwinner for her very large family, she faces a crisis of conscience, when a tourist couple seems to be the answer to her financial predicament.
This short documentary takes a brief look at the creation and storied history of one of the world's most popular alcoholic beverages.
When a video of an unknown creature went viral in Barbados, a young journalist and her team embark on a journey to seek out the truth about it, she ends up uncovering a bigger story than just a video.
Twelve-year-old Kera is Auntie’s latest ward and a special child to whom she has grown uncharacteristically close. Seven years after her mother emigrates to England in search of a better life, Auntie is confronted with the day she has long dreaded. Unable to accept the inevitable, Auntie makes a hasty decision, which goes against everything she claims to stand for. She risks damaging the special bond between them on the eve of the child’s departure.
A teacher asks her class, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”. While his joyful classmates respond, Tom, a quiet 10-year-old boy, slips away.
A story of a man forced to evolve from his past to transcend the painful sacrifice of the present so he can bravely grasp the opportunity to create his future.
A very poor 10-year-old girl, Chrissy Wright lives on the rough side of town in deplorable conditions with her two siblings and their sick, bedridden mother. Living without running water, electricity and very little to eat, Chrissy becomes a target for teasing and discrimination from her fellow students at Redemption Primary, and almost all the teachers except for her beloved science teacher, Mr. Fenton.
Documentary charting the spirit, political beliefs, and actions of former President of Mozambique, Samora Machel.
Mona sits between stuffed dead animals, faded paintings, and cloying antiques in her prop shop…she raises a gun to her head. Mona has suffered depression for years and feels she is neither alive nor dead. She is about to squeeze the trigger when her two closest friends interrupt her with a surprise girls’ night. As the night unravels, so do their secrets. Is the sisterhood enough to prevent her from pulling the trigger?
Luke Singh, a young fisherman, struggles to make ends meet. Unable to provide for his sick grandmother, Luke is presented with an opportunity to make a lot of money, but the decision would come at a great cost.
A young woman unleashes an entity that remains bound to her.
A man who is going through a difficult life situation tries to connect with his past.
Papa Machete explores the esoteric martial art through the practice and life of a farmer named Alfred Avril. The short film documents his proud devotion to his heritage in the face of increased globalization, and his efforts to keep this mysterious art alive.
Macro-lensing of Black women from Haiti and New Orleans doing skillful work – braiding hair, crushing spices, threading fabric – is superimposed onto the work of soldier ants to visually manifest in four stanzas the mythology of their queen.
A restless daughter meets a spirit-fish who gives her pure water but as her family devours the delicious water, they begin to suspect more than the origin of its taste.
A documentary film about Haitian vodou.
A journey in Haiti that takes us to different places in different ways, to meet people fighting and not giving up.
A troubled night security guard working at a container compound is caught between drug addiction and debt. He finds himself stealing from the storage containers he should be guarding.
Shan is a portrait of a young Trinidadian dancer at the Universoul Circus, which tours the USA. This experimental work follows Shan backstage and on stage, moving between darkness and light, as she prepares to pass under the limbo stick, reflecting on her past, present and future.
In a dystopian future a woman risks death to grow a flower.
Bartholomew, a retired civil servant, takes a leisurely drive downtown, where Shanice, mistakes his car for a taxi. After much resistance, he agrees to take her to her destination. Along the way, they encounter a wide diversity of Trinidadian characters.
People with kinky/curly hair have been the butt of every hair joke for centuries. Issues from discrimination to lost opportunities, and more take a toll on “naturals” globally. Sorf Hair explores the natural hair experience in Trinidad & Tobago, as people from all walks of life and with different hair textures reveal their stories and challenges.
A brief and dramatic tale about a Reverend, who is kind-hearted and pities foreigners who are being mutilated and murdered in the once-welcoming South Africa. The man behind the catastrophes and brutality is a man named Johnny Khumalo an uptown thug whose motives have sparked nationwide xenophobia.
This insightful short documentary captures the activism of Marlene Green in Toronto around educating black youth and immigrant youth.
This extraordinary mini doc captures the life of activist Dudley Laws in Toronto.
This extraordinary mini doc captures the life of civil rights lawyer/ activist Charles Roach and his activism on immigration in Toronto in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
A powerful short doc about the activism of the Honourable Rosie Douglas.
The story of Viola Desmond, an entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s. The 82nd Heritage Minute in Historica Canada's collection.
An animated short that dives into the heart of Black culture with an exhilarating trip though history. Watch as a young boy traces his roots through the stories his grandmother shares with him about the events that shaped their cultural heritage.
A shocking short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry.
A short film that reveals the buried history of a pioneering Black hockey league in Atlantic Canada.
A celebration of Cuba's eastern city of Santiago de Cuba and its Black and Afro-Cuban population-a place where colonial past and contemporary customs mingle.
Sponsored as a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana.
Rare footage from a 1970's film on institutional racism.
The story of the 900 Belizean lumberjacks who in 1942 left the tropical rainforests of British Honduras to help Britain fight fascism by felling trees in Scotland.
Gregorio Guerra migrated from Puerto Rico to New York in 1964. More than 40 years later, we catch a glimpse of his current life in Queens and his coping with a bad health diagnosis.
Afro-Peruvian Beats is a musical voyage that brings together international musicians Branko, Matias Aguayo and Dengue Dengue Dengue at the “Carnaval Negro” (Black Carnival) in Chincha, the largest black cultural event in Peru.
Considered one of the first Peruvian social films, the short film Cimarrones narrates the episode in which a group of rebellious slaves who led a life of freedom far from the cities, assault a caravan and free two slaves that the Spanish settlers took to be executed.
A TV drama on the attitude of employees in the workplace.
For Natalia’s grandmother finding a black doll in the Caribbean island was an adventure. In Kingstown, only one retailer sells black dolls, and not even the kind with kinky hair.
A young girl lives with her family in a fishing community on the water in Lagos. To prove herself valuable to the community and break the gender stereotype she embarks on a journey by herself into the sea to try and catch as many fish as possible. On her journey, she meets a wise old man that shows her a side to reality she has never seen before.
Invoking a lineage of female ancestors through embodiment, gesture and the archive, Her Name in My Mouth reimagines the Aba Women’s War, a major anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria.
The second in a series of shorts for National Geographic, intended for teaching and which explains the geography of the Atlantic Region of Costa Rica.
Bad Bunny's highly anticipated music video El Apagón segues to an 18-minute documentary called Aquí Vive Gente (People Live Here) by journalist, Bianca Graulau. Conozcán la triste realidad de Puerto Rico.
For the last 30 years Pappy has been running unsuccessfully for Prime Minister of Dominica, each time gaining fewer votes than before. In 2014 he runs again, this time on a platform to legalise marijuana.
Igna, tells the story of the resilience of one-handed, yet epically unchallenged, Ignatius Mitchel, aka Igna. An unassuming father of four, volunteer marine teacher, environmental activist, and Dominica’s best boat mechanic.
Documentary footage of the Carnival celebration in Guinea-Bissau
Gina and Gerald secretly cast love spells on each other. Now, they are unhappily together, but unable to leave the relationship, because of their spells. Can they undo what they’ve done?
Part 2/13 of an educational film produced in Canada that looks at the paternal aspect of colonialism.
Part 1/13 of an educational film produced that looks at the paternal aspect of colonialism.
Documentary footage of people riding a train from Sudan.
This short describes the idea of African Socialism aka "Ujamaa" as a response to the challenge of development in terms of the pressures under which newly emerging nations labor and emphasizes the strength of working together for the benefit of their nation.
It's July 16, 1969: America is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat America to the moon. Inspired by true events.
In her next film, Barbie would like to wear the belt that Kimpa Vita wore when she was burned in 1706. She travels to Kinshasa to get one. There, she rediscovers the story of Kimpa Vita, the Kongo Empire prophet that many have called the African Joan of Arc.
Tiquan, A 13-year-old Antiguan, recounts bits of his daily life in his small village and community.
A young man’s world is plunged into turmoil when the girl he loves suddenly decides to dump him and make up with her ex-boyfriend who has just been released from jail.
In 2005 some members of the cast and crew got together to reflect on the "Mango Experience".
Sir Vivian Isaac Alexander Richards is a national hero and cricket icon. This documentary traces his "Road to Greatness".
