2025, SHORT FILMS

She Island

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Raven Irabor & Sira Marissa Lewis • 16 mins • Experimental, Short Folklore, Fiction, Drama, Performance • Trinidad and Tobago • United States • English, Haitian, Papiamento, Spanish • 2025

She Island is an enchanting and experimental film that blends folklore, history, and mysticism to tell a powerful story of resilience and cultural reclamation. Set on a fictional Caribbean island where women reign supreme, the story follows a mother and daughter on a perilous journey to break a curse cast by Ouidah: The Forgetting Tree—an entity threatening to erase the memories and identities of the island’s women. Guided by the mystical LaDiabless, they navigate ancestral rituals and traditions to reclaim their heritage. Rooted in the symbolism of the historical Tree of Forgetfulness in Ouidah, Benin, the film explores themes of hybridity, sisterhood, preservation, and the indispensable role of Caribbean women as gatekeepers of culture. Culminating in a triumphant ritual and a vibrant carnival of renewal, She Island is a celebration of ancestral wisdom, resistance, and the enduring power of Caribbean identity. https://vimeo.com/1019670264?share=copy trinidad Expect delivery late May.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Ripple Effect

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by Malachi Jarrett & Samuel Jules • 32 mins • Short • Drama • Crime • Sports • Turks and Caicos Islands • English • 2024

The Ripple Effect short film follows the life of a female athlete called Anita, whose delinquent brother Mario has made choices that lead to the plummet of her Track and Field career. This story explores family dynamics and gun violence’s negative repercussions among youth in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Rhizome

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by Célia Dejoux, Laura Edouard, Aubane Nesty, Fabrice Celony, Mathieu Castard, Dylan Ceprika • 19 mins • Short • Drama • Guadeloupe • French

Astride, a forty-year-old artist and illustrator, flees her Parisian daily life after discovering her infertility. In an effort to rebuild herself, she travels to the archipelago to stay with a couple of friends who have taken over an agricultural garden, where she finds solace in working the land. There, she meets Inaya, a little girl who will force her to confront herself.

2025, DOCUMENTARY, SHORT FILMS

Raizal: The Jamaican Connection

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by Jamar Cleary • 20 mins • Documentary • Student • Colombia, Jamaica • English • 2024

This award winning documentary focuses on a group of Afro-Caribbean-Latino individuals living on the Colombian-owned island of San Andrés. Known as the Raizals, this community has strong Jamaican heritage, which plays a significant role in shaping their identity and culture. The film explores the unique history and contributions of the Raizals, highlighting their vibrant traditions and connections to their Jamaican roots.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Perturbed

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by Trinity Corieanne Rose • 5 mins • Short • Barbados • English • 2025

This film features a young adult, Roxie Paine who suffers with surreal mental illnesses; OCD, anxiety and self- harm and her friend sober, mindful mature best friend Jeddy who together sets up to rob a bank in Bridgetown, Barbados but unexpectedly an unknown, a stranger crashes their impromptu meeting triggering young Roxie as she goes down the proverbial dark hole through a series of unpredictable mental break downs.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Provisions

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by Kheyal Roy-Meighoo • 5 mins • Animation • Student • Caribbean Diaspora • United States • 2023

“Provisions” is a short stop motion that draws upon the animate possibility of stop motion to articulate the liveliness of culture and memory. The film follows K, a young Trinidadian-American woman who lives on her own, as she prepares provision soup. K calls her grandmother for advice on how to make the traditional Trinidadian dish, and their conversation evolves into a conversation about community and how it feels to be a child of the diaspora.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Prism

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Cecile George • 20 mins • Short • Trinidad and Tobago • English • 2024

Plagued by the persistent noises in his head and his inability to remember, a suicidal Prism tries to put himself out of his misery by drowning himself on a deserted beach. But even the sea rejects him, spitting him back out onto the sand, leaving him drained and hopeless. Desperate, he makes a final purchase in the nearby village store — five bottles of fluorescent nail polish — and returns to the beach where he paints his toenails in a somber parting ritual. While his toenails dry, he steels himself for the end, puts on a dress and heads for the water one last time, determined to do it this time. An unwelcome surprise visitor from his past life suddenly arrives, forcing him to finally confront his demons.

2025, SHORT FILMS

One Day

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by Yazmeen Kanji • 17 mins • Short • Drama, Comedy, Coming of Age • Canada• 2024

In a suburb just outside of the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, an Indo-Caribbean Muslim teenager, Adeela, can’t help but fantasize her way through every part of her day. Adeela is secretly fiery, searching for her confidence amongst the emotionally limiting environments she feels she has no control over. In her daydreams, Adeela explores her desires to be seen and heard as the stylish, artsy, justice-seeking young woman she anxiously wants to be. Hesitant to radiate that confidence in real life, she seeks inspiration from an outspoken classmate and comes to learn that she is the only one capable of giving herself the push she needs. Adeela becomes changed in one day, simply by imagining what could be.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Old Toy Train

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by Kevin Garbaran & Rae Wiltshire • 18 mins • Short • Guyana • English • 2024

Evelyn faces the challenges of caring for her father, Edwin, who is grappling with Alzheimers disease. Returning to their home in the Guyanese Countryside, Evelyn and Edwin reconnect with Babita, Edwin’s niece. A mysterious boy appears, bringing unexpected joy and a touch of magic to their lives. Together, they embark on a journey of rediscovering cherished memories, finding solace in each other, and learning profound lessons about love and resilience in the face of fading memories.