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March 22, 2024 | 6:30PM | @FRESH – Carmichael & Lamaha Sts, Georgetown.,
Timehri Film Festival is back in 2024 with the TIMEHRI CINEMA NIGHTS, a film screening series showcasing Guyanese and Caribbean films, to Guyanese audiences. This month’s screening venue is @FRESH, one of Georgetown’s favorite healthy food spots.
Our first screening for this year will celebrate WOMEN and feature a collection of 6 short films centering the experiences of Guyanese and Caribbean women.
Admission to the event is FREE and @FRESH’s delectable bites and drinks, will be available for purchase.
Check out the films we will be screening, below and come join us! We love engaging in lively post-screening conversations, so plz also, put on your socializing hat.
REBECCA’S STORY
by Witness Project International
Guyana | 2014
“Rebecca’s Story,” tells the story, a young orphaned girl having to deal with an abusive grandmother. On a beautiful day in the Caribbean city of Georgetown, Guyana, a young couple drop off their daughter Rebecca and her little brother Aaron with their Grandmother. With parting hugs and words of love, Rebecca retrieves her favorite book, not realizing it would be the last time she would see her parents alive. Weeks later, their days are marred by their distressed Grandmother’s harsh words and rough hands. Rebecca yearns for an escape. She finds hope in the intervention of Lindsey, a young witness to Rebecca’s plight. He offers respite through an after school program.
Plagued by her own demons, her Grandmother dismisses his help. Undaunted, Rebecca soon discovers her Granny’s violent harshness and sharp tongue hide a troubling disability and desolate past. In a small but powerful gesture, Rebecca reaches out with an offer of her own, opening the door to better days for her new family.
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COAST
by Nile Saulter
Jamaica | 2013
When Patasha is called upon to make a routine delivery to a young tourist couple, she encounters a situation that will test her morality. The young spear-fisherman Samson also wants to make a transaction, but this one is of a more sinister nature. Coast is an examination of choices, and how ugly or stunningly beautiful this island can truly be.
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YOLANDA
by Cristian Carretero
Dominican Republic | 2012
A single mother struggles to raise her children in the poverty stricken outskirts of Santo Domingo. She soon decides to risk it all and illegally immigrate in the search of a better life.
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SUGAR
Michelle Serieux
Jamaica | 2017
“Sugar” – A young black Jamaican girl from the underclass and on the brink of womanhood, works at a Jamaican resort where she witnesses tourists’ affluence on a daily basis. As the de facto breadwinner for her very large family, she faces a crisis of conscience, when a tourist couple seems to be the answer to her financial predicament.
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THE BOOK OF JASMINE
by Melanie Grant
Barbados | 2017
A young Spiritual Baptist undergoes the mourning ritual to seek guidance to suppress her desires for the woman she loves.
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DORLIS
by Enricka MH
Guadeloupe | 2022
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.
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You can click on the film name to stream these films and watch them anytime online at Studio Anansi Tv.
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