Explore the Festival 

6:00PM-8:30PM | Dundas West Studio
From intimate encounters to collective struggles, these films explore the courage and care that emerge when individuals and communities face uncertainty.
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✦ Little Dreams by Hannah Yohannes | Canada | 2026 | 9m 3s
✦ Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica’s Coastline by Emiel Martens, Elsie Vermeer | Jamaica, Netherlands | 2026 | 29m 57s
✦ Wealth Untold by Eladio Arvelo | USA/Belize | 2025 | 1hr 25m
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Filmmaker Talkback

6:00PM-8:30PM | Dundas West Studio

Knowledge as resistance — culture, memory, and learning passed on as forces for justice and change.

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✦ Girls of Steel by Margaret McEvoy | Trinidad and Tobago | 2025 | 38m
✦ Lapo Chapé by Mélissandre Monatus | France | 2024 | 31min
✦ The Forbidden University by Nauzanin Knight | Canada/Iran | 2025 | 1h 22m
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Filmmaker Talkback

9:00PM-11:30PM | Dundas West Studio

Becoming ourselves, together, self-discovery rooted in community.

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✦ Uma Memòria Emplumada by Ida Does | Brazil/Netherlands | 2025 | 56min
✦ Paid In Blue by Jared Seemungal | Trinidad and Tobago | 2026 | 6min 30s
✦ Swim Sistas by Catherine Joy White | UK | 2025 | 11min
✦ Church Hat by Miceal O’Donnell | USA/Canada | 2026 | 7min
✦ Purgatory  by Nikki Shaffeeullah | Canada | 2025 | 19min 30s
✦ Unalive by Kwanza Nicole Gooden | United States | 2025 | 24min
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Filmmaker Talkback

6:00PM-8:30PM | Dundas West Studio

Men, retold — strength found in vulnerability, memory, and the courage to be seen.
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✦  Beg Yuh A Call by Mikey T Campbell | Jamaica / USA | 2025 | 8min
✦  Call of the Jab by Fletch Power | Grenada/USA | 2026 | 16min
✦  Play the Devil by Keegan Taylor | Trinidad and Tobago | 2026 | 7min 30s
✦  I'm Leaving by Vance McLean | Puerto Rico | 2025 | 29min
✦  Dream Call by Nhlakanipho Mashinini | South Africa | 2025 | 23min
✦  Benchless by Galiam Bruno Henry | France | 2025 | 23min
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Filmmaker Talkback

9:00PM-11:30PM | Dundas West Studio

Women, in their own words — lives of love, resilience, and the courage to live authentically.
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✦  ARRANCA by Liliana M Molina | United States | 2024 | 15min
✦  On Air by Shinade Misha Martin, Shea Best Trinidad and Tobago | 2026 | 15min
✦  Someone Loves You by Victoria Perry, Amanda Mandii | USA | 2025
✦  I'm Karen by Célia Dejoux | Guadeloupe | 2025 | 13min
✦  Moonlighting by Jay Shetty | USA | 2026 | 1h 17min
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Filmmaker Talkback

6:00PM-8:30PM | Dundas West Studio
A showcase of outstanding Caribbean and diaspora short films.
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✦  Horsepower by Tittel Del Mar | Curaçao / Netherlands | 2025 | 21min 26s
✦  Nani's Kitchen by Stephanie Sonny Hooker | Canada | 2025 | 11min
✦  The Cold Ride by Cherene Francis | Canada | 2025 | 15min
✦   Bumpa by Kayla Naomi Watkins | United States | 2026 | 31min
✦   Crossroads by Horane Henry | USA | 2025 | 19min
✦   The Sight Unseen by Shawn Antoine II USA | 2026 | 40min
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Filmmaker Talkback

9:00PM-11:30PM | Dundas West Studio
Our collective voice. Our culture. Our imagination. Our future.
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✦  Trouble by Jaime Grandison, Malik White | Jamaica | 2025| 17min
✦   Smile by Jordan Wayne Morris | Jamaica | 2025 | 13min
✦   Bright Sparks by Lesley-Ann Wanliss | Jamaica | 2025 | 23min 21s
✦   Who Cyah Hear by Isis N Semaj-Hall | Jamaica | 2026 | 17min
✦   The Rhythm Of Jamaican Art Feature by John Campbell | Jamaica/ USA | 2025 | 01h22min
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Talkbacks

1:00PM-3:30PM | Dundas West Studio

Through dance, poetry, personal journeys, and documentary, they uncover the enduring presence of colonialism, migration, ancestral knowledge, and cultural memory in contemporary life.
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✦  DOUGLA by Sádé Budhlall, Jerel Ramsey | Trinidad and Tobago | 2026 | 04min30s
✦  Here and There, In the Wind by Alejandro D. Oregano Colón | USA/ Puerto Rico | 2025 | 14min
✦  Indigenous Origins by Alexis Garcia | Puerto Rico/United States | 2025 | 08min
✦  Tambu by Laurie Lambert | Jamaica / Canada | 2026 | 23min
✦  Suppose the law a loss by Naomi Sineva Toth | Canada /France | 2025 | 23min
✦  INDIVISUM: Legacies Adrift by Katia Café-Fébrissy | Canada | 2026 | 1h15min
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Filmmaker Talkbacks

12:00PM-2:30PM | Dundas West Studio
Warm, uplifting films that celebrate everyday Caribbean moments.
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✦  Manatees Strike Back by Alec Castillo | USA | 2025 | 01min 37s
✦  Nun 'Ting to Worry 'Bout!  by Toni Lee Aping, Alder Bennett, Daisy Johnson | UK | 2025 | 4min
✦  Two Come Calling by Alyssa Charles | Barbados/Canada| 2026 | 10min
✦  Pan Gyul by Juliette Jeffers | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 2025 | 15min
✦  Recao by Dayra Ferrera | Puerto Rico | 2025 | 15min
✦  Home is a Feeling by Ryah SM King | Canada | 2025 | 7min
✦  Not Now, Never Now Now by Oliver Milne | Trinidad and Tobago | 2024 | 14min
✦  Spectral by Jason-Marc Mohamed | Trinidad and Tobago / France | 2025 | 19min
✦  On The Eve by Elizabeth Francisco | Curaçao | 2025 | 12min20s
✦  Fort Buku by Loelle Monsanto | Netherlands/ Suriname | 2025 | 35min
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Filmmaker Talkback

3:00PM-5:30PM | Dundas West Studio
Ancestral wisdom, alive — guiding the present and inspiring the future.
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✦  Black Cake by Megan Channell | USA | 2025 | 12min36s
✦  Kankantri by Gabri Christa | Suriname | 2024 | 25min
✦  At All Kosts by Joseph Hillel | Canada/ Haiti | 2024 | 1h24min
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Filmmaker Talkback

Footsteps | 6:00PM-8:30PM | Dundas West Studio

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✦  Tangled Webs by George Malcolm | Jamaica | 2025 | 14min
✦  If Only You Knew  You Knew by Safiyah Chiniere | USA | 2025 | 20min
✦  Loneliness Doesn't Come Alone  by Amanda Valle | Dominican Republic | 2025 |12min
✦ My Father, Winston by Ingrid Hart | Canada | 2025 | 10min
✦ Father's Day by Ayana O'Shun | Canada | 2025 | 01h14min
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Filmmaker Talkback

9:00PM-11:30PM | Dundas West Studio
The rhythm lives on — musical legacies carried forward, generation to generation.
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✦  Bomber's Dream by Jesse Ryan | Canada | 2026 | 28min
✦  Iconography: Jit Samaroo by Mikhail Gibbings | Trinidad and Tobago | 2025 | 01h32min
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Filmmaker Talkback

Playing Online | September 20 - October 18
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✦ Deformed by Augusto Suárez Vincenty
✦ My Solitary Companion by Andre LaDon
✦ The Brittle Little Ones by Jade Andrivon, Laura Cuvillier, Clémentine Damico, Régis Raphaël Marton, Samuel Roussas
✦ Waiting by Gustavo Campos
✦ Women of Dominica by Farrah La Ronde-Hutchison