The ninth year of the Caribbean Film Series starts off all about family!
The Wonders and Traumas of Family History and Legacies Explored in the return of
the Caribbean Film Series
February 9th and 10th at 7PM
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
KUMINA QUEEN
Friday, February 9 at 7PM
Directed by Nyasha Laing
Runtime: 57 min
Jamaica/USA | 2022
Imogene "Queenie" Kennedy was a priestess in post-colonial Jamaica who catapulted her African spiritual practice into renown. But after centuries of erasure, what remains of the dance between the living and the dead? In the wake of the loss of her mother, the filmmaker travels into the heart of Jamaican countryside to research Kumina, an ancestral ritual, and uncovers a mysterious world that reveals a divergent pathway to freedom, healing, and transformation - for those who choose it.
preceded by
BRAVE
Directed by Wilmarc Val
Runtime: 25 min
France | 2021
in Haitian creole with subtitles
NEW YORK PREMIERE
When a Haitian vodou priestess, a Mambo, dies, it is up to the children to celebrate the deity she served. Hoping to put an end to the misfortunes that have befallen her family, Cébé decides to return to Haiti to finally perform a ceremony she should have performed 24 years ago, following the death of her priestess mother.
DOUBLES
Sat. February 10 at 7PM
Directed by Ian Harnarine
with Sanjiv Boodhu, Errol Sitahal, Rashanna Cumberbatch
Runtime: 91 min
Trinidad & Tobago/Canada | 2023
It’s clear to Dhani (Sanjiv Boodhu), a down on his luck Trinidadian street food vendor, that he needs to make a significant change in his life. So when gets an opportunity to expand his business, he travels to Canada to get the investment money from his estranged father (Errol Sitahal, “Moving Parts” - 2017), but instead discovers that his father’s life isn’t quite that robust.
“Doubles” is an expansion of Harnarine’s 2011 film festival favorite “Doubles With Slight Pepper”; Boodhu and Sithahal reprise their roles from the short film version.
A post-screening Q&A with Harnarine and special guests will be moderated by filmmaker Alrick Brown (“Kinyarwanda”, “The Adventures of Supernigger”)
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