PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
In keeping with its ongoing commitment to presenting heritage works of Caribbean cinema, both during its annual festival and as part of its year-round programming, Third Horizon is honored to present a retrospective of restored films at this year’s Festival. Entitled You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978–1985, the retrospective comprises four films, all recently restored works, themed around labor and workers’ rights.
Three of the films are documentaries, collaboratively made works of non-fiction, originally shot on 16mm and being presented at THFF25 in beautiful digital restorations. While they were made independently of each other, the films all share a concern for the rights of laboring people, within the context of often exploitative, neocolonial hegemonic power structures. They also reflect the often creative ways in which working people organize to agitate for their rights and for better employment and working conditions.
The final film that rounds out the retrospective is the recent restoration of West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979), directed by the late Mauritanian French filmmaker Med Hondo.
This screening is supported by: Dutch Culture USA at the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Netherland-America Foundation & The Miami Workers Center