Third Horizon

🚨📢 Just like that, Third Horizon Film Festival is back for its eighth edition in Miami, and our call for entries is now open!

📆 Third Horizon Film Festival returns to Koubek Center - Miami Dade College from May 29 - June 1, 2025 featuring an exquisitely curated program of films, panels, performances and more, in a warm atmosphere of solidarity and camaraderie. Our filmmaker testimonials say it best: “I felt grateful and delighted to be part of this experience. Thank you for your attention, care and kindness. I truly think that I’ve found my cinema family. I felt a sense of belonging. I’m hopeful and excited for everything coming ahead.”

⁉️Who can submit? As a festival which aims to uplift Caribbean and diaspora filmmakers, and films which center Caribbean experiences, we only accept submissions that qualify as such.

💸As a true filmmakers’ festival, we are still committed to NOT charging SUBMISSION FEES and are committed to paying all filmmakers and artists for showing their work, once accepted.

🔗Our submission deadline is October 18.
Submit at: https://filmfreeway.com/ThirdHorizonFilmFestival

🎦 Miami fam, mark your calendars cause Cinemovil is back August 4th! Come through for a two hour workshop with local actor, writer, director and 2024 Third Horizon Forward Fellow Edson Jean as he demystifies the director-actor relationship with hands-on experience. Six lucky filmmakers will be able to participate in 10 minute exercises with local actors guided by Edson.

After the workshop, join us for a screening of LUDI.

LUDI | Directed by Edson Jean | USA | 2021 | 81 Minutes | English and Haitian Creole with English subtitles
Ludi, a hardworking and exhausted nurse, battles co-workers, clients and one impatient bus driver to learn her self-worth as she chases the American Dream in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood.

📆August 4, 4PM
✍🏾Workshop at 4PM & 📽️Screening at 7PM
📍Data for Black Lives, 300 Northwest 54th Street

➡️RSVP at our Eventbrite link in bio🔗
**PLEASE NOTE: Guests can choose to participate in the workshop, attend the film screening or both. If you plan to attend both make sure you RSVP for each. The screening is open to all audiences, regardless of whether or not you participated in the workshop, you can still RSVP for the screening alone.

We are very excited to share that our partners at BlackStar Film Festival have opened up pass sales for their festival taking place this summer! The festival, taking place from August 1-4 in downtown Philadelphia and online around the globe, will feature genre-defying films from Black, Brown, and Indigenous creators. At the festival you will also have the opportunity to attend thought-provoking panels, enjoy parties, and be in community with other artists of color.

Several selections are featured in the program including: Onyeka Igwe's A Radical Duet, Emilia Beatriz' barrunto, Al'ikens Plancher's Boat People, Joseph Douglas Elmhirst's Burnt Milk, and Miko Revereza's Nowhere Near.

More info at: https://www.blackstarfest.org/

🇭🇹HAPPY HAITIAN HERITAGE MONTH, family! ❤️‍🔥 Come celebrate Haitian culture through films and music on May 31! After the films, stay for the filmmaker Q&As, enjoy Konpa dancing lessons, vinyl dj sets and more. Presented by and , supported by Third Horizon.

🎟️ Admissions at the door $10/ Students $5. Link in bio for more info.

Brave / Dir. Wilmarc Val / 25 min / 2021
In this documentary, Debe, a modest housekeeper living in France, decides to return to Haiti to finally organize a ceremony that she should have done 24 years ago, following the death of her mother, a Vodou priestess.

June 1st / Dirs. Angelo Rio () and June Vinette () / 10 min / 2024
On her 16th birthday, aspiring model Megan reckons with her loneliness, desire for freedom, and emotionally abusive mother in the suburbs of Broward County.

Konpa / Dir. Al’Ikins Plancher / 10 min / 2023
A young Haitian-American learns how to dance Konpa to impress his crush.

Hooky / Dir. Princess Usanga / 8 min / 2024
A day of skipping school tests the friendship of two Miami high school girls in 1995. ‘Goody two shoes’ high school freshman, Nora, agrees to play ‘hooky’ with her rebellious friend Renee. Their day of skipping school in 1995 tests their friendship as they navigate through a series of back to back calamities. Nora’s struggle with being a second generation Haitian trying to assimilate to American culture hits new heights when she is at risk of her grandparents catching her skipping school. If the girls get caught- Nora’s personal life is over.

📸 Stills from Brave, dir.

Wow! We are still processing how amazing the 7th edition of Third Horizon Film Festival was. We enjoyed beautifully curated, politically and aesthetically rigorous Caribbean and diaspora films. Through our daily panels we discussed and debated some of the pressing topics of our times, and grounded in the power of cinema as a tool for anti-colonial struggle. We hosted emerging filmmakers from across the Caribbean and its diaspora to build together with Caribbean Film Academy. We broke bread, danced, laughed, and sang together in between and after screenings. We made family, fostered connections, and planted many seeds. We were reminded of the power of our unity, as our elder, the actor, writer, and director Errol Sitahal said in our closing night screening of Doubles (at which he was presented with the Festival’s first ever award, for his lifelong achievements): “The Caribbean sea unites us, not divides us.”

It will always be One Caribbean. We hope that stays with you beyond the festival.

As for the Third Horizon crew, we are feeling reinvigorated, inspired and filled with gratitude for all who participated in making all that it was. From the filmmakers, to our volunteers, to our venues, partner organizations, food vendors and more, it takes a village!

Read the full thank you letter: https://mailchi.mp/thirdhorizon/thxforthff24

As a part of our program in solidarity with the people of Palestine, we are please to present Jehad in Motion (2007). This work is a two-screen documentary video installation by Richard Fung, whose new film The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo (2024) will have its world premiere at . This installation will be presented virtually, as part of the Virtual Cinema from now until May 19.

Jehad Aliweiwi is a Palestinian Canadian who lives in Toronto but regularly returns to visit his family in Hebron. Rendered on two screens, Jehad in Motion is a double portrait both of the man and of the two cities he calls home. In Hebron, Jehad takes us to the old market where Jewish settlers have colonized the upper stories forcing Palestinians to build a horizontal fence to protect themselves. In Toronto, we walk around Thorncliffe Park where he works providing services in one of the city’s key neighborhoods for newly arrived immigrants. In Hebron, he celebrates his sister’s wedding at a feast for one thousand people. In Toronto, he cooks at a Passover Seder for peace. Jehad synthesizes the challenges and possibilities in these two very different but overlapping worlds. Jehad in Motion ruminates on diaspora, urban space, and the interpenetration of politics and cultures.

Stream today at: https://www.thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com/films/jehad-in-motion/

Announcing our 2024 Third Horizon Forward Fellows! 🌟 🎥💐

Third Horizon Forward is a new fund created for filmmakers working out of Miami who trace their lineage to the Caribbean, to interrogate and explore the culture, character, spirit, people and legacy of the region through film. Through this program, we are interested in supporting short films with an authentic, enduring and vital connection to region Third Horizon calls home.

Welcome filmmakers to the Third Horizon family! We look forward to supporting your growth as filmmakers over the next year.

▶️ Edson Jean
▶️ Geovanna Gonzalez
▶️ Nadia Wolff

To learn more about the filmmakers visit: https://forward.thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com/

is made possible with partnership from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation() and JustFilms Ford Foundation (). Additional support provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners (), Wyncote Foundation and Perez Art Museum’s Caribbean Cultural Institute ().

Tomorrow, meet us at Koubek for the rest of ! For those of y'all joining us this weekend, here's a 🗺️ LOCATION & PARKING GUIDE! 🚙💢

🔴 PARKING: There will be complimentary

There’s so much to be said about the films we’ll be watching together this weekend and the current moment we’re in. Join us every afternoon at Koubek in between screenings for panels and community conversations! Swipe for descriptions.

Friday May 10 @ 2PM
CINEMA FOR RECONCILIATION: PERSONAL FILMMAKING, FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND MEMORY
Panelists: Beverly Bennett, Elizabeth Webb, Wally Fall
Moderated by: Rhonda Chan Soo

Saturday May 11 @ 1:45PM
FILMMAKING IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS: CINEMATIC STRATEGIES FOR SOLIDARITY
A community conversation featuring filmmakers Richard Fung, Emilia Beatriz
Moderated by: Jason Fitzroy Jeffers

Sunday May 12 @ 2:15PM
A PLACE CALLED HOME?: DISPLACEMENT AND STORYTELLING FROM THE MARGINS
Panelists: Malaury Eloi Paisley, Maya Jeffereis
Moderated by: Monica Sorelle
This panel is presented alongside our community partner, The Miami Workers Center, a local organization building power with working-class tenants, workers, women, and families in Miami-Dade County.

More info here: https://www.thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com/panels/

We’re so ready to see you all tomorrow for the start of our 7th edition of Third Horizon Film Festival🎬🌅! 🎉 Make sure you stay with us til the very end. To close out the festival, we’ll be screening Doubles, a narrative feature you won’t want to miss directed by Ian Harnarine.

📽️ Feature Film:
🗓️ Sunday May 12 @ 7:30PM

DOUBLES | dir. Ian Harnarine | 2023 | Trinidad and Tobago, Canada | 91 mins

Dhani, a vendor of the popular Trinidadian street food doubles, is struggling along with his mother to make ends meet. After their doubles stand is robbed, Dhani decides to fly to Toronto and confront his estranged father, Ragbir, a man of reputed wealth who Dhani blames for his and his mother’s plight back home. The reality Dhani encounters in Canada, however, upends all his expectations, and resets both his relationship with Ragbir and his ideas about the immigrant dream.

🎤 A Q+A with Ian Harnarine will follow the screening. Ian Harnarine was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago. He is the director of the short fiction films Doubles With Slight Pepper (2011) and Caroni (THFF2018), and the mid-length documentary Party Done (THFF21 world premiere), among other films. Doubles is his first fiction feature. He teaches filmmaking at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

DOUBLES will be screening as part of the 7th annual Third Horizon Film Festival (THFF) which to Miami, Florida from May 9 - 12, 2024, with additional virtual presentations for a global audience.

🎟️ Tickets & more info: thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com

In 2021 THFF was pleased to present several short films by Onyeka Igwe that interrogated colonial moving-image archives and the ghosts therein. This year, we are honored to have Onyeka at the Festival to present And Let History Begin, a program that proposes as its point of departure a speculative history of Pan-African solidarity, aimed at a radical reimagining of the (post)colonial narrative.

Anti-colonial intellectuals, artists, and activists like Nigeria’s Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, and Trinidad’s George Padmore were all in the heart of Empire—London—in 1947. They were imagining a world after colonialism, but did they meet? And if they all did, what did they discuss, what did they conjure? A Radical Duet (2023, 28 mins) is a dual-timeline hybrid film by Onyeka Igwe about two women of different generations—one Jamaican, the other Nigerian—who come together in London in 1947 to put their fervor and imagination into writing a revolutionary play.

Immediately following the screening, Onyeka will direct a cast of Miami actors in a performance of an extract of Maskarade (1973), a play by the Caribbean theoretician, playwright, novelist, and intellectual Sylvia Wynter, whose biography and theorizations were vital in the development of this film and the larger research project which propose storytelling as essential to imagining the world otherwise.

Actors featured include: .void



🔸Onyeka Igwe is a London born-and-based moving-image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question “How do we live together?”, and aims to pull apart the nuances of mutuality and co-existence in our deeply individualised world. Onyeka’s practice figures sensorial, spatial, and counter-hegemonic ways of knowing as central to that task. She is interested in the prosaic and everyday aspects of Black livingness. Her films include the shorts No Archive Can Restore You and a so-called archive, both THFF21 selections.

🎤A Q+A with Onyeka Igwe will follow the program.

📽️ Feature Film:
🗓️ Sunday May 12 @ 11:45AM

NOWHERE NEAR | dir. Miko Revereza | 2023 | Philippines, USA, Mexico | 96 mins

Nowhere Near is a poetic essay film through the lens of an undocumented immigrant becoming disillusioned by their future in the United States, and deciding to return to an estranged homeland. The film tracks down the origin of a family curse backtracking through the post-9/11 era, the US occupation of the Philippines, and the spiritual conquest of the Philippines by the Spanish empire. Nowhere Near is a years-long diary towards understanding the causes of migration to the United States, though ultimately this odyssey deviates far from the expected course.

NOWHERE NEAR will be screening this week as part of the 7th annual Third Horizon Film Festival (THFF) which to Miami, Florida from May 9 - 12, 2024, with additional virtual presentations for a global audience.

🎟️ Tickets & more info: thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com

☀️📚🎞️CAFA is back! In celebration of the festival’s 7th anniversary year, the Caribbean Film Academy, co-created by Chloe Walters – Wallace & Themba Bhebhe, will intentionally build on its groundbreaking work of uniting, building bridges and renewing the many ties across the pan-Caribbean cultural field.

CAFA 2024 will focus on providing both up-and-coming Caribbean and diaspora based film creatives with the knowledge and perspectives of seasoned industry professionals in order to support their artistic development and build connections focusing across the region rather than outwards.

Give it up for this year's CAFA cohort who will be joining us for in-person gatherings and artist-led conversations focused around the unique and pressing needs of the Caribbean.

🔸Obed Lamy
🔸Wendy P. Espinal
🔸Saeed Thomas
🔸Karla Claudio
🔸Amir Aether Valen
🔸Malaury Eloi Paisley
🔸Kaleb D'Aguilar
🔸Shari Petti

▶️ Learn more about CAFA and the fellows at: thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com/cafa/

🎤A Word on from Jonathan Ali, our Director of Programming ☀️:

"THFF supports all oppressed people everywhere in their right to self-determination and in their various struggles for freedom. Yet as a tiny film festival that has planted its flag in the multicultural island of Miami, a festival that has as its mission the elevation of the cinema of the Caribbean, its diaspora, as well as other traditionally underrepresented Global South spaces and their diasporas, what meaningful gesture can we make in the face of the overwhelming worldwide catastrophes that appear to be never-ending?

It hopefully comes as no surprise that it is our sincere and passionate belief that the best gesture we can make, the most meaningful intervention we can foster, is the one we have sought to sustain from the festival’s beginning in 2016: presenting moving-image work radical in form and aware in its politics, in an intimate setting that privileges joy, inclusiveness, and solidarity. The present state of the world only emboldens us to keep to the path we’ve set for ourselves, confident in the power of the cinema we champion to stimulate and inspire people in the perpetual quest for liberation."

Swipe to read the full statement. Just a few days left 'til ! Tickets & more info: thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com

📽️ Feature Film:
🗓️ Saturday May 11 @ 4:15PM

L'HOMME VERTIGE: TALES OF A CITY | dir. Malaury Eloi-Paisley | 2024 | Guadeloupe | 93 mins

In the Chanzy neighbourhood of Pointe-à-Pitre, the economic capital of Guadeloupe, bulldozers are pulling down residential blocks. L'homme-vertige: Tales of a City follows the city’s wanderers through the empty streets. They all carry the wounds of this city within them, and are now seers. Circulating throughout the internal and external spaces, both endangered, are the director’s empathetic conversations and relationships—with the lung-diseased former freedom fighter Ti Chal, with the crack addict Priscilla, with the angry and then calmer Eddie, with the fish scaler Kanpèch. Eric resists the inevitable dilapidation with his view of the city, his recitation of texts by Joël Beuze and Amílcar Cabral. Malaury Eloi Paisley: “And I ask myself why I feel the need to wander the streets of Pointe-à-Pitre.”

L'HOMME VERTIGE: TALES OF A CITY will be screening as part of the 7th annual Third Horizon Film Festival (THFF) which to Miami, Florida from May 9 - 12, 2024, with additional virtual presentations for a global audience.

🎟️ Tickets & more info: thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com

We’re overjoyed to share that we'll be opening with the world premiere of the short films of Third Horizon Forward on May 9☀️🎞️

is an initiative created for filmmakers working out of Miami who trace their lineage to the Caribbean to interrogate & explore the culture, character & legacy of the region through film.

Stick around post-screening for a Q+A and a “Locals Only” afterparty! Tickets: https://www.pamm.org/en/event/third-horizon-film-festival-opening-night-at-pamm-short-films-of-third-horizon-forward-locals-only-dj-sets/

BOAT PEOPLE | dir. Al'ikens Plancher
Inspired by true events, Boat People follows a Haitian refugee fighting to survive the inhumane conditions at Guantànamo Bay.

TE AMO TANTO, PERO ERES TAN DIFÍCIL | dir. Berenicé Brino
Te amo tanto, pero eres tan difícil reimagines the relationship between mother and daughter as they traverse the tropics and topics in a series of travels through tender and emotionally charged terrains, finding parallels amongst differences and bonds through reflection.

ART: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY | dir. Rachelle Salnave
Art: By Any Means Necessary follows the defiance of two art institutions in the Caribbean: one closed but squatted by artists, the other fighting to stay open.

SUMMON | dir. Nile Saulter & Shamar Watt
Summon follows Suno, a young dancer torn between his Jamaican roots and life in Miami, USA. The story intricately weaves together past and present, as Suno grapples with questions of identity and belonging.

SOL Y MAR | dir. Greko Sklavounos
Miami is shrouded in darkness; glimmers of light and laboring bodies in shadow begin to form an abstracted portrait of a city with a precarious future.

ANA Y LA DISTANCIA | dir. Hansel Porras García
Ana y la Distancia tells the story of a Cuban mother, exiled in Miami, as she anxiously waits for her son who, after the anti-government protests that occurred in Cuba in July 2021, decided to cross borders to reunite with her in the United States.

Miami - we out here! Literally. Catch us outside as you’re waiting in line for Chef Creole (that fried fish is worth it), cruising down Biscayne, or catching the bus home. But mostly, tell a friend: May 9-12 there’s only one place to be and that’s with us at Third Horizon Film Festival. See y’all soon!

🌅 thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com for tickets, passes & more.

📽️ Feature Film:
🗓️ Saturday May 11 @ 6:45PM

LLAMADADES DESDE MOSCÚ (Calls from Moscow) | dir. Luis Alejandro Yero | Cuba | 2023 | 65 min
Days before the invasion of Ukraine is announced, four young q***r Cubans visit a Moscow apartment for a 24-hour stay. They can be as fabulous as they want in the apartment, but the elevator that brings them down to the Moscow streets is already a different space, where you stare out in front of you and avoid attracting attention; Russia and Cuba are so very far apart. It’s hard not to feel melancholy when faced with an emptied-out city and endless snow, and this winter is unlike all the others. But hope is still there, waiting at the other end of the line. In their phone calls to Cuba, the present and future coexist: their stories as q***r and undocumented immigrants, and the later exchanges with the film’s director after the invasion of Ukraine begins.

LLAMADADES DESDE MOSCÚ will be screening as part of the 7th annual Third Horizon Film Festival (THFF) which to Miami, Florida from May 9 - 12, 2024, with additional virtual presentations for a global audience.

Tickets, passes + more info: https://www.thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com/films/llamadas-desde-moscu-calls-from-moscow/

📽️ Combined Film Program: YOU THOUGHT THE WORLD WAS YOURS WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG BUT NOW YOU KNOW IT'S DISAPPEARING 🌍🌫️
🗓️ Friday May 10 @ 12:15PM

PICTURE A FOREST | dir. David Rodriguez
Picture a Forest is an anti-landscape performing its own impossible, inevitable annihilation. The north Florida woodlands are fractured by strobe light, offering glimpses of their vitality and fragility. Over time, these flickering slices of the natural world become more corrupted and illegible, decaying into garbled datastreams. As the forest fails to preserve itself, it demands that we re-calibrate our vision.

HOW TO LOVE A PLACE SO THE CHILDREN WILL LOVE THEIR LAND | Dir. Laura Sofía Pérez
The voices of artist, poet, and archaeologist Estebán Valdés and Lares-born, self-identified indigenous countrywoman Pluma Bárbara carry us through the interior landscapes of Puerto Rico, sharing oral histories, ancestral knowledge, memories, and thoughts about how we create consciousness around our cultural identity. The film brings to the forefront histories about women who are bearers of great knowledge, innovation, and creation, along with moments of darkness that visually represent our gaps in knowledge due to racially & politically motivated erasure.

ANCESTRAL CLOUDS ANCESTRAL CLAIMS | Dirs. Arjuna Neuman, Denise Ferreira da Silva
A speculative and poetic exploration of the entanglements and overlaps of historical events in the Atacama Desert (Chile), Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims, told from the perspective of the wind, takes us on a visual journey, floating freely through the many sites and histories of the Atacama. Exploring some of the largest lithium mines in the world; hovering above the remnants of colonial labor camps reactivated under the Pinochet regime, and slipping inside the international observatory of the ALMA large array facility; the filmmakers’ camera uncovers material trajectories whose planetary scope & historical depths remain invisible to the many.

📽️ Feature Film:
🗓️ Friday May 12 @ 10AM

SIMON SAYS/DADDA | dir. Beverley Bennett | UK | 2023 | 57 mins
Simon Says/Dadda is a work that explores father/daughter relationships. Stemming from a desire to highlight Black and South Asian women as well as non-binary individuals and their experiences to counter the historical silencing of their voices, Simon Says/Dadda includes the direct testimonies of a number of these individuals, collected via gatherings across the UK. Working over a longer period of time to allow for deeper connections to manifest, the work draws together mediums that previously have been kept separate, to generate a whole. With a title referencing patrilineal relationships—Simon is the artist’s father, and Dadda (a word in Jamaican Patois that means father) was her grandfather—Simon Says/Dadda also looks at intergenerational legacy, and familial love languages.

SIMON SAYS/DADDA will be screening as part of the 7th annual Third Horizon Film Festival (THFF) which to Miami, Florida from May 9 - 12, 2024, with additional virtual presentations for a global audience.

🎟️ Tickets & more info: thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com

📽️ Feature Film:
🗓️ Saturday May 11 @ 10AM

MANTJÉ TONBÉ SÉ VIV (DANCING THE STUMBLE) | dir. Wally Fall | Martinique | 2023 | 63 min

In Martinique, a psychiatric daycare hospital welcomes a young artist-researcher to lead Bèlè dance and music workshops. Mantjé Tonbé Sé Viv crafts an intimate dialogue between the filmmaker’s inner questions, the words of those who learn to live with a psychiatric diagnosis, and the ancestral energy of Bèlè.

Wally Fall is a filmmaker of Senegalese and Martinican descent who grew up in Martinique. In 2016, along with fellow filmmakers, he founded Cinemawon, a film collective dedicated to creating new spaces to screen films mostly overlooked from the Caribbean, Africa and other Afro-diasporic spaces. He is the director of the short Fouyé Zétwal (Plowing the Stars, THFF21), among other films.

A Q&A with Wally Fall will follow the screening.

🎟️ Tickets: https://www.thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com/films/mantje-tonbe-se-viv-dancing-the-stumble/

📽️ Short Film Program: SOMETIMES I IMAGINE YOU A LITTLE LONELY
🗓️ Friday May 10 @ 10AM

Personal works made with delicacy and care, the eight films in Sometimes I Imagine You a Little Lonely find their makers reckoning with familial relationships across various histories of migration and diasporic longing. A Q&A with Jard Lerebours, Elizabeth M. Webb, Sebastian Marcano-Pérez, and Nande Walters will follow the screening.

COCONUT | dir. Jard Lerebours
FATHERSPY | dir. Humberto González Bustillo
CANTO ERRANTE (WANDERING SONG) | dir. Génesis Valenzuela
PROXIMITY STUDY (SIGHT LINES) | dir. Filmmaker: Elizabeth M. Webb
RAIZ | dir. Raydrick Feliciana

▶️ 🎟️More info & tickets on our website: thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com

📽️ Feature Film:
🗓️ Friday May 10 @ 3PM

RAMONA | dir. Victoria Linares | Dominican Republic | 2023 | 82 min
Feeling unprepared to play the role of a 15-year-old pregnant girl living on the outskirts of Santo Domingo, an actress decides to sit down with pregnant teenagers all over the country. Throughout the process, as the girls lay out the stories of their lives on camera, they start to influence the production of the film itself, changing its course.

Victoria Linares is a Dominican filmmaker whose interests lie in telling q***r stories regarding transgenerational trauma and sociopolitical oppression. Among other films, she is the director of the short My Mother Resents Me (THFF20) and the feature It Runs in the Family (THFF22).

🎟️: thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com/films/ramona/

📽️ Short Film Program: HISTORY IS WRITTEN AT NIGHT ✍🏾
🗓️ Saturday May 11 @ 12PM

In the 5 films in History Is Written at Night, historical narratives of the marginalized are rescued from often oppressive, and amnesia-inducing hegemonic systems of rule, from Cuba to Brazil, Mauritius to DR. Q&A to follow.

SOLMATALUA | dir. Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade
In a dreamlike Afro-diasporic odyssey, landscapes and alleys meet at the crossroads of time. Solmatalua (which in Portuguese means both "sunforestmoon" as “sunkillmoon”) travels a dizzying itinerary through ancestral and contemporary territories, carrying out a mystical journey that rescue memories and search possible futures.

EXAMPLE #35 | dir. Lucía Malandro, Daniel D. Saucedo
Example #35 is based on images discovered in Cuba’s judicial archives, which hold the island’s most jealously guarded secret: an alternative history in which the nonconformists, the misfits, and the dissidents dwell.

UNDER THE SKY OF FETISHES | dir. Caroline Déodat
Under the Sky of Fetishes responds to the complexity of colonial archives. It reinvents the specters of a haunting gaze to tell the story of Mauritian sega—a cultural practice born during colonization and slavery, now mainly seen in tourism.

UN GAVILLERO EN LA SIERRA | dir. Ricardo Ariel Toribio
Tormented by bloody events, a gavillero—a member of the guerilla movement that fought against the occupation of the Dominican Republic by the United States between 1917 and 1922—goes on the run in search of his freedom.

HISTORY IS WRITTEN AT NIGHT | dir. Alejandro Alonso
“A huge blackout has plunged Cuba into darkness. In the streets, the inhabitants try to escape the gloom while the bonfires seem to announce the end of an era. Taking refuge inside our house, my mother tells me about a vision that has been tormenting her for years.” - Alejandro Alonso

More info: thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com/films/shorts-program-history-is-written-at-night/