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The TIMEHRI CINEMA NIGHTS is back this August in celebration of EMANCIPATION DAY in Guyana. To honor the lives of our ancestors, we will be hosting a screening in the village of Queenstown, on the Essequibo Coast featuring films all celebrating our African heritage.
August 23 at 6pm
West Coast, Essequibo
Queenstown Community Center
Admission to the event is FREE and refreshments will be served. Please RSVP here.
Check out the films we’ll be screening below, and come join us!
Jonkunnu No Dead
Dir. Ryan Eccleston | (@eccleston__) | 🇯🇲
“Jonkonnu Nuh Dead” is a dream-like exploration into the world of Carlton Walters’ experiences into what drew him into the world of traditional masquerade. It is one of the oldest dance forms found in Jamaica, but over the decades it has been marginalized.
OSEYI AND THE MASQUERADERS
Dir. Alwin Bully | 🇩🇲
Oseyi, an eight-year-old boy, lives in the village of Colihaut, in Dominica, which is the home of a particular masquerade/carnival art-form/African Retention known as the Band Mauvais (Bad Band). He has developed a deep-seated fear of the masquerades, even when they are worn by children his own age, like Tamika, his close friend … from a combination of a picture of his father in a red costume hanging menacingly in his house, a frightening early childhood experience with a costume from this band, and his mother Rita’s oft repeated hatred of it as the cause of his father’s death.
KUMINA QUEEN
Dir. Nyasha Laing | (@kuminaqueen) | 🇯🇲
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. The ancient practice, she learns, is a driving force in Jamaica’s culture and identity, yet its leaders have historically been discarded as witches and even criminalized. Jamaica’s post-colonial renaissance enabled Queenie to share her practice with the world. Today, artists and followers are reimagining kumina—even as the mysterious world of spirit possession reveals divergent pathways to freedom, healing, and transformation.
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