Beg Yuh A Call

Directed by Mikey T Campbell, Jamaica/USA, 2025

Logline:Omar is adjusting to life overseas. A call from back home changes everything.

Runtime: 8m 6s

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Call of the Jab

Directed by Fletch Power, Grenada/USA, 2026

Logline: Haunted by a childhood encounter with Grenada’s legendary Jab Jab, a man returns to the island with his father to retrace the stories of his grandmother and uncover the deeper ancestral truths hidden within carnival, memory, and the sea.

Synopsis: Set in Grenada, Call of the Jab follows Joshua across two timelines shaped by folklore, family, and memory. As a child spending summer with his grandmother, Joshua becomes fascinated by stories of the Jab Jab and encounters the feared masquerader in the sugarcane fields behind her home. Decades later, adult Joshua returns to Grenada with his father to retrace that formative experience and reconnect with the island’s spiritual and cultural inheritance. His search leads beneath the sea to Grenada’s Coral Carnival, where underwater sculptures, ancestral memory, and carnival traditions merge in a poetic exploration of identity, fear, and belonging.

Runtime: 15m 56s

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Play the Devil

Directed by Keegan Taylor, Trinidad and Tobago, 2026

Logline: Through the eyes of master masquerader Steffano “Steffy” Marcano, this intimate documentary explores the ritual, transformation, and spiritual power behind becoming Trinidad’s feared and iconic Blue Devil.

Synopsis: An intimate and atmospheric exploration of transformation”, this documentary follows master practitioner Steffano “Steffy” Marcano as he prepares to embody the legendary Blue Devil, one of Carnival’s most iconic traditional masquerade characters. Through paint, ritual, movement, and performance, the film reveals the physical discipline and spiritual transformation required to bring the character to life. More than spectacle, the Blue Devil emerges as a living expression of memory, resistance, and cultural identity rooted in Trinidad’s Carnival traditions. Intimate and immersive, the film offers a rare glimpse into the artistry and ancestral power behind traditional mas.

Runtime: 7m 30s

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I’m Leaving

Directed by Vance McLean, Puerto Rico, 2025

Logline: After being diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, a resident of a poor, run-down neighborhood in Puerto Rico must get his affairs in order—if his troubled past allows him to.

Runtime: 39m

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Dream Call

Directed by Nhlakanipho Mashinini, South Africa, 2025

Logline: Aspiring Ghanaian architect Agyeman and his brother Derrick face a hate crime during a routine permit renewal, forcing Derrick to leave South Africa while Agyeman stays to chase a dream in a country that may never accept him.

Synopsis: Aspiring Ghanaian architect Agyeman and his brother Derrick are building lives in South Africa when a routine permit renewal turns into a traumatic encounter marked by xenophobic violence. The attack forces the brothers to confront the precarious reality of being migrants in a society where opportunity and exclusion often coexist. Determined to protect himself and his future, Derrick chooses to leave the country, while Agyeman remains, unwilling to abandon his ambitions. As their paths diverge, the film explores belonging, resilience, and the emotional cost of pursuing a dream in an environment shaped by discrimination. It is a powerful story of migration, identity, and perseverance.

Runtime: 22m 58s

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Benchless

Directed by Galiam Bruno Henry, France, 2025

Logline: Three homeless men find a lost smartphone during a political protest and begin calling strangers from its contact list, setting off a bittersweet journey through memory, loneliness, and the lives they left behind.

Synopsis: Rody, Doug, and Fred bicker over a bench in a park. The streets have erased their age and past. Who can still tell who they once were? One day, Fred finds a smartphone during a political demonstration. He brings it back to the park. They want to call someone, but who? Everyone has either abandoned or forgotten them. They browse through the contact list and each decide to call someone.

Runtime: 22m 38s

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