Event

Caribbean Cinema Nights

This month, we're back in East Flatbush and screening two films - one shot in the Bahamas and Haiti, and the other, in Trinidad + Tobago.

MY FATHER'S LAND
by Tyler Johnston + Miquel Galofre
Documentary Feature
Bahamas/Haiti

Papa Jah, a Haitian gardener, has spent the last forty years in the Bahamas, living in a marginalised community named the Mud. When news arrives that his 103-year-old father has taken ill back in Haiti, Papa Jah fears he may not see him before he passes. Papa Jah travels back to Haiti, to his familys small village on the island La Tortue, to reunite with his father, hopefully before it is too late.

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SMALLMAN: THE WORLD MY FATHER MADE
by Mariel Brown
Documentary Short
Trinidad & Tobago

Kenwyn Rawlins had a passion for making things. In a workshop beneath his house he made push toys, model battleships, miniature furniture and dolls houses. Smallman is an exploration of the world that Kenwyn Rawlins made, as told by his son Richard.