Jamaica Movies

A short documentary film about a frail non binary child, already traumatized by a Christian mother and Rastafarian father, who is abducted and raped....

Reality begins to unravel for Hyacinth when a woman claiming to be her daughter arrives at her doorstep on her wedding anniversary.

A portrait of a group of young inmates at the General Penitentiary in Kingston, Jamaica, who participate in a rehabilitation program through music. Th...

Man Free takes a look into the lives of everyday people in the beautiful country of Jamaica. Told through the people themselves, the film takes a glim...

Soon Come Back is a poetic documentary about migration’s effect on Nande's relationships to “home” in Jamaica and the US, and her feelings of alienati...

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

An inspirational actress who visits a sacred place in an unexplored region: Ai Yoshizaki is accompanied by a priest (exoscist) Yuji Kiba, a psychic re...

Experimental short by Tetsuo Furudate.

Newly-married Aria Sawyer is a charismatic and attractive young woman who is after one thing – a seat in Parliament – and she gets it. However, the sw...

Your friends and enemies have one thing in common, you! Mark leaves his girlfriend to be with Natasha, the girl he truly loves, but her brother Andrew...

Through contemporary Jamaica, everyday life, celebration and respite converge in a meditation on revolutionary time, climate crisis and cinema.

A family convenes exactly 500 years after Charles V grants permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod ‘to import 4000 Africans into New Spain’. The King’s act...

Written and directed by Nile Saulter and based on a concept by Shamar Watt, Summon follows Suno, a young dancer torn between his Jamaican roots and li...

Dexter’s life falls apart after a false theft accusation costs him his job. Desperate, he starts a taxi business, unknowingly picking up David—a man u...

Experimental short by Takashi Nakajima.

Report on the 1987 edition of FESPACO

A retelling of the story of Queen Nanny, national heroine of Jamaica, in keeping with her broader significant real and symbolic roles as a shaman of t...

Derrick Myers retreats to a vacation house in the mountains to write his break through project. On the way he has an encounter with an apparition on t...

As Jamaica's beaches are increasingly captured by private and tourist interests, a movement fights to reclaim access to the island's coastline, exposi...