2025, SHORT FILMS

Bredrins

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by Amir Aether Valen Ali • 15 mins • Short • Drama • Trinidad and Tobago • English • 2025

Bound by a deep friendship despite their vastly different upbringings, Jonathon and Myles have been inseparable throughout their university years. But when a fateful encounter forces them to confront old wounds and unspoken resentments, their bond begins to unravel. As ambitions and pride clash, the brothers-in-spirit find themselves at a crossroads: reconcile and rebuild the trust that once defined them, or succumb to the bitterness that threatens to drive them apart forever.

2025, DOCUMENTARY

BOSSLADYSK8

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by True Daley & Susan Armstrong • 35 mins • Documentary • Short • Sports • Feminism • Social Justice • Black Women • Millienial • Canada • English • 2024

Sasha Senior aka BOSSLADYSK8 made history in 2020 as the first Black woman to launch her own skateboard business in Canada – BLISS Skateshop. While being celebrated in the public eye, behind the scenes she struggles with redefining personal success. Was her leap of faith worth it?

2025, SHORT FILMS

Zwarte Ibis (Black Ibis)

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by Emma-Lee Amponsah • 18 mins • Experimental • Short • Futurism • Surrealism • Black narratives, Poetic • Queer • Netherlands • 2024

Zwarte Ibis (Black Ibis) is a short poetic film portraying a young Black woman’s quest for intimacy in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the political and the personal, the past and the present, become ever blurrier. The short film is an afro-surrealistic reverie, poetically re-imagining our contemporary conceptions of relationships with the self and with imagined communities through a questioning of historically and culturally imposed views on Black people’s intimate lives in the diaspora.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Beyond (Au Dela)

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by Nicolas Polixene & Sylvain Loubet-dit-gajol • 14 mins • Short • Martinique • French • 2024

All Hallows’ Eve, Auranne is called back from the dead by her husband to share one last evening together. Despite his wife’s decomposing body, he’s madly in love and does everything to make this night perfect. But as the hours pass, Auranne’s mind wanders into strange visions linked to the ritual of her resurrection.

2025, DOCUMENTARY

Ancestral Memory

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by Natusha Croes • 32 mins • Documentary • Short • Aruba • 2024

Memoria Ancestral (Ancestral Memory) is an artistic production by Cas di Cultura that explores Aruba’s history of slavery, encouraging reflection on its past, present, and future impact. Created under the guidance of Natusha Croes, with contributions from Darwin Winklaar and Layzmina Emerencia, the project aims to uncover silenced stories, challenge ingrained cultural shame, and foster pride in identity. Through art as a tool for healing, it offers a safe space for emotional expression and community dialogue, addressing the generational trauma left by slavery and promoting self-awareness, empowerment, and cultural restoration.

2025, FEATURE FILMS

A Caribbean Story

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by Simon Haveland and Gary Nurse • Produced by Tony Hoyos • Feature • Musical •Barbados • English

Warren, 23, was born in Barbados but raised in London by his mom who’s estranged from his dad. It’s a hard life as an aspiring rap artist and he’s had to borrow funds from a dangerous loan shark. Now he’s traveled to Barbados to help his half-brother Chris, 25, scatter their dad’s ashes in islands he loved. As they travel to Trinidad and Jamaica to re-trace dad’s journey they meet with family members and Warren discovers more family history and secrets. This causes him re-think his currently fraught relationship with Chris.

SHORT FILMS

“BLV” (Believe)

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by Justin-Paul Williams • Short • Jamaica • English • 2025

Stanley Wallice, a young Jamaican boy with dreams of filmmaking, faces discouragement from his father, who views his career choice as impractical. Encouraged by his grandmother’s words about self-belief and transformation, he gains the courage to present his vision on Career Day, determined to prove that his passion is his purpose.