Women In Theatre
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiWelcome to the exclusive new membership for Women in Theatre! We are truly grateful for the success of Women in Theatre 2023-2024 Season. That is why we decided to plan 2024-2025 Season with more benefits and subscription options. We will have FIVE Panels, FOUR Workshops and a joint event with Women on Set, at [...]
Third Horizon Film Festival 2025
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiAlmost every year since 2016, THFF has gathered filmmakers, film lovers, and members of our community to experience the art of Caribbean and diaspora cinema through a rigorously curated program of films, visual art, performances, panels, and other related events. As we continue to find ourselves in an era where a hegemonic establishment seeks [...]
En Residencia 2025
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiYou Can Now Apply to En Residencia An Artist-in-Residence Program for Local Creators, from the Koubek Center at MDC The Koubek Center at Miami Dade College (MDC) is now accepting applications for the fifth edition of its artist-in-residence program, En Residencia. Applications will be accepted starting April 14 through May 31. Local creators are [...]
SHORTS BLOCK: WHY DOES THE AIR TREMBLE?
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiPROGRAM DESCRIPTION Filmmaking as process is at the heart of these five films, memorably imaginative attempts at working through a variety of themes, and towards new ways of understanding. A Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening. NOBODY’S WORD By Camara Taylor | 13 mins | 2025 [...]
TRUE CHRONICLE OF THE BLIDA JOINVILLE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL IN THE LAST CENTURY, WHEN DR FRANTZ FANON WAS HEAD OF THE FIFTH WARD BETWEEN 1953 AND 1956
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiBy: Abdenour Zahzah Country: Algeria, France Language: Arabic, French w/English Subs Duration: 90 mins Year: 2024 Genre: Fiction SYNOPSIS 1953, colonized Algeria. Frantz Fanon, a young black psychiatrist from Martinique, is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. As he puts his theories of “institutional psychotherapy” into practice in opposition to the racist theories [...]
SCREENING THE STRUGGLE: CARIBBEAN ACTIVIST CINEMA REGAINED
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiThis panel explores Caribbean heritage cinema as a tool for resistance, community action, and historical documentation. Centered on the films in the THFF25 retrospective You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978–1985, this discussion will examine the socio-political landscapes that shaped these films, the often collective filmmaking practices behind them, and [...]
EN PARÁBOLA/CONVERSATIONS ON TRAGEDY (PART I)
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiBy: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo Country: Puerto Rico Language: English and Spanish w/English Subs Duration: 63 mins Year: 2024 Genre: Non-Fiction SYNOPSIS En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I) is a reassemblage of the Greek myth of Antigone in collaboration with a cast of non-professional actors who reside in New York City’s Puerto Rican diasporic community. Developed [...]
BITTER CANE
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiBy Ben Dupuy and Kim Ives | 77 mins | 1983 | Haiti Filmed clandestinely under the Duvalier dictatorship, Bitter Cane, presented at THFF25 in a brand new restoration, is an incisive documentary interrogation of the exploitation and domination of the Haitian people. From peasant coffee farms in the rugged tropical mountains to steamy [...]
BITTER CANE
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiBy: Ben Dupuy, Kim Ives Country: Haiti Language: Kreyòl, French, and English, w/English subtitles Duration: 77 mins Year: 1983 Genre: Non-Fiction SYNOPSIS Filmed clandestinely under the Duvalier dictatorship, Bitter Cane, presented at THFF25 in a brand new restoration, is an incisive documentary interrogation of the exploitation and domination of the Haitian people. From peasant [...]
LA BACHATA DE BIONICO (BIONICO’S BACHATA)
Koubek Center 2705 SW 3rd Street, MiamiBy: Yoel Morales Country: Dominican Republic Language: Spanish w/English Subs Duration: 80 mins Year: 2024 Genre: Fiction SYNOPSIS A raw vision of love in a hostile Caribbean city, Bionico’s Bachata is a mockumentary that follows a hopeless romantic, addicted to crack, who must take control of his life if he wants to marry the [...]