Pickney
Dir. Micheal Jenkins
UK

Leon is a mixed-race teenager close to his grandmother, the only person he knows from the Jamaican side of his family. When he goes to her Nine Nights and meets the rest of his family for the first time, he begins to understand that identity is more than skin deep…Read More

Agwe
Dir. Samuel Suffren
Haiti

Myrlande lives in a seaside village in Haiti. Six months pregnant, she awaits news of her husband, who left on a boat for the United States in search of a better life for his family…Read More

 

Dorlis
Dir. Enricka MH
Martinique

After her grandfather is a paralyzed by a stroke, fifteen-year-old Nora goes with her mother and little sister to stay with him. This awakens childhood memories in Nora, who begins to fear an attack by an evil spirit…Read More

 

Nosferasta: First Bite
Dir. Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer & Oba
USA

Christopher Columbus uses his undead powers to create his “New World”, where he sucks the blood out of his colonial project for centuries. Complicit in this is Oba, a shipwrecked African who, once bitten, becomes Columbus’s subject and collaborator…Read More

 

Tropicalia
Dir. Rodney Llaverías
Dominican Republic

Dolores, relegated to the caretaking of her crazed and ailing mother, has her life upended when a strange dog shows up at her house. Through this new friendship, Dolores finds a way out of monotony and embraces her wild side…Read More