Jamaica Movies

A young black Jamaican girl from the underclass on the brink of womanhood works at a resort to support her large family. She faces a crisis of conscie...

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

Documentary following a Swedish non-profit organization on their study trip to Jamaica. One of the first films by Kristian Petri and a unique document...

A young man in Jamaica battles with taking matters into his own hands when seeking justice for the murder of his mother.

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

A young boy struggles with his widowed mother's decision to relocate the family from Jamaica to Canada.

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...

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

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...

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...

Experimental video installation by Kazuhiro Goshima.

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...

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...

A fictional short film that uses the horror genre to explore the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession, and the power of return/retrieval.

Report on the 1987 edition of FESPACO

When their homes in rural Jamaica become unsafe, a queer teen and his cousin dare to confide in their aunt.

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...

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...

Experimental short by Tetsuo Furudate.