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SUMMARY:Third Horizon Film Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:Almost 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. \nAs we continue to find ourselves in an era where a hegemonic establishment seeks to shore itself up to the misrepresentation and exploitation of minority communities in Florida and worldwide\, never has it been more necessary to foreground independent filmmaking voices that are unafraid to do what cinema\, at its resisting best\, does so well: speak truth to power. \nAnd so in curating this year’s THFF\, we are making a determined effort\, as we always do\, to ensure our program reflects the idea of cinema as a socially and politically disruptive tool\, both in terms of form and content. \n\n\n\n\nWe invite you to join us for an unforgettable weekend of engagement with films by the Caribbean and its diaspora’s most cutting-edge moving-image artists.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/third-horizon-film-festival-2025/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:SHORTS BLOCK: YOUR HANDS WERE BUILT FROM MEMORY
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM DESCRIPTION\n\n\n\n\nAncestral echoes reverberate across the films in this programme\, embodying various forms of resistance and resilience\, from the Florida Everglades to a Jamaican sugar plantation to the Amazon rainforest. \nA Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening. \n\n\nREDEMPTON (AN EXPERIENCE IN THREE PARTS) \nBy Mariana Luiza | 3 mins\, 10 mins\, 16 mins | 2023 | Brazil \nIs it possible to redeem a nation that once sought to exterminate the majority of its people? \nIn 1911\, Brazil presented an audacious plan at the First Universal Congress of Races in London: to become a predominantly white nation within a century\, exterminating Black and mestizo people within three generations\, and transforming into a fully white country by 2012. The painting Ham’s Redemption (1895)\, by Modesto Brocos\, exhibited during the congress\, symbolized Brazil’s racial whitening ideology. \nOver 110 years later\, Redemption critically examines Brazil’s whitening policy\, providing a counter-colonial response. The film\, presented in three acts\, revisits this history through archival imagery and symbolism\, exposing the lasting impact of eugenicist ideologies. At its core\, it challenges the narrative of Ham’s Redemption\, replacing the imposed vision of racial erasure with one that honors ancestral knowledge and the resilience of Black and Indigenous communities. \nHIJA DE FLORINDA (FLORINDA’S DAUGHTER) \nBy Shenny De Los Ángeles and Amanda Morell (iiritu) | 12 mins | 2025 | USA \nThrough a series of black-and-white tableaux\, this poetry film follows the journey of Young Naomi in Everglades\, Florida. She learns from Florinda\, her grandmother\, about the ancestral practices of caring for the land and nurturing grief in the face of environmental challenges. As the story unfolds\, we grow to understand Florinda’s indigenous teachings of controlled burns and the importance of embracing fire rather than suppressing it. As the prescribed burns ignite from Florinda’s hands\, an archival portal is birthed. \nREDEMPTON (PART II) \nBy Mariana Luiza | 3 mins\, 10 mins\, 16 mins | 2023 | Brazil \nLAS\, FIYA (LAST\, FIRE) \nBy Kat Anderson | 25 mins | 2024 | Jamaica\, UK \nLas\, Fiya (Last\, Fire) is a fictional short film that uses the horror genre to explore the subjects of ancestral trauma\, dispossession\, and the power of return/retrieval. Shot largely on an existing sugarcane farm in Jamaica\, the film weaves historical methods of harvesting sugarcane and sugar production with the cinematic concept of the “origin story”. At the film’s center is Lil\, a solo traveller\, who is led by a spirit to a rural cane farm and reborn as a super-villain. A trans-dimensional evil entity preys upon a group of unsuspecting tourists\, with their fate being revealed in a final heightened scene\, where all are gathered on the cane farm for “reaping time.” \nREDEMPTON (PART III) \nBy Mariana Luiza | 3 mins\, 10 mins\, 16 mins | 2023 | Brazil
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/shorts-block-your-hands-were-built-from-memory/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T120000
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SUMMARY:SUGAR ISLAND
DESCRIPTION:By: Johanné Gómez Terrero \n\n\n\n\n\nCountry: Dominican Republic\, Canary Islands\nLanguage: Spanish w/English Subs\nDuration: 90 mins\nYear: 2024\nGenre: Fiction\n\n\n\nSYNOPSIS\n\n\n\n\nMakenya leaves behind fun and dancing with her friends in search for work\, after an unwanted pregnancy confronts her with sudden adulthood. The teenager lives alongside her grandfather and mother in the Batey\, a Dominican-Haitian community of sugarcane workers. The mother is a servant of the Mysteries within the 21 divisions of Afro-Dominican spirituality\, and the grandfather is an activist for pension rights. The mechanization of the sugar industry threatens to displace them without compensation. Meanwhile\, in a parallel and Afro-futuristic dimension\, Makenya reunites with her friends. In a theatrical exercise\, they read documents from the colonial era\, recall the black uprisings on the island\, and recover ancestral knowledge that forms a sort of anti-racist and decolonial manifesto. Photo by Dilia Oviedo. \nA Q+A with Johanné Gómez Terrero will follow the screening.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/sugar-island/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T141500
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SUMMARY:RECKONING AND REPAIR: REPRESENTING TRAUMA AND (POST)COLONIAL VIOLENCE
DESCRIPTION:How can cinema serve as an act of healing\, and/or reckon with the consequences of violence? This panel explores the ways filmmakers engage with the long-term psychological effects of colonialism\, state violence\, and personal loss. Rather than focusing on direct representations of violence\, films like Kouté vwa\, True Chronicle of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century\, and Twice into Oblivion center on the aftermath—the lingering trauma\, the institutional responses (or lack thereof)\, and the individual and communal processes of healing. \nFrom the genocidal killing of Haitians in the Dominican Republic in 1937 to Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work in colonial Algeria to a mother’s grief in French Guiana today\, these films meditate on violence and trauma within particular (post) colonial contexts. They also raise ethical questions: How do filmmakers depict trauma without re-traumatizing their audiences or their subjects? What does it mean to tell stories of pain while leaving space for catharsis\, resistance\, or repair? This conversation will examine the role of cinema in confronting historical violence while fostering new possibilities for healing.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/reckoning-and-repair-representing-trauma-and-postcolonial-violence/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:SHORTS BLOCK: DEPOSITED IN THIS LAND OF STRANGERS
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM DESCRIPTION\n\n\n\n\nEmploying a variety of cinematic forms and strategies\, the five films in this programme engender lingering\, often poetic diasporic dialogues—between here and there\, then and now. \n\n\nBISAGRAS \nBy Luis Arias | 16 mins | 2024 | Senegal\, Brazil\, USA \n“Bisagras” is a film exploring the enduring here and elsewhere of black consciousness. Finding a connection through the film’s emulsion and my skin\, Bisagras holds my experience as a person of Afro-Caribbean descent during a visit to the House of Slaves in Gorée Island\, Senegal and the port of Salvador de Bahia\, Brazil. In these places I dare to imagine my ancestors’ history of the journey of African slaves to America and draw a line that goes through me.” – Luis Arnías \nWE DEH HERE \nBy Maybelle Peters | 7 mins | 2025 | UK \nWe Deh Here traces the relationship between Scotland and Guyana through photography\, sewing\, genealogical research\, and matrilineal lines. Combining stills of historical sites in Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands with audio conversations between the artist and her mother\, the film investigates and speculates on their interconnection as an expression of British and Scottish colonialism. \nBLUE HEART \nBy Samuel Suffren | 15 mins | 2025 | Haiti \nMarianne and Pétion live in Haiti and wait impatiently for a call from their son in the USA. As silence sets in\, their fears and worries grow\, revealing the fractures in their own lives. The promise of the American dream now seems to elude them\, as the line between hope and reality becomes increasingly blurred. \nYOULOGY/NO GHOSTS \nBy Darryl Daley | 8 mins | 2023 | UK \nYoulogy / No Ghosts explores cyclical motifs of arrival and departure through the artist’s grandmother’s migration to the United Kingdom and her posthumous return to Jamaica\, creating a transcendental frame where memory and time merge. In this speculative space\, the film navigates beyond the confines of mortality\, reimagining a future where inherited stories resist linearity. \nA RIVER HOLDS A PERFECT MEMORY  \nBy Hope Strickland | 17 mins | 2024 | Jamaica\, UK \n“The original premise of a river holds a perfect memory was based on a series of labor protests in January 2016\, St Elizabeth\, Jamaica that highlighted the complex\, racio-colonial capitalist logics that continue to shape the use of Black River. Rivers fascinate me for myriad reasons: they hold within them the poetics of collapsed time and diasporic memory\, alongside complex flows of resource and labor extraction. Spending time researching reservoirs and industry in the North of England and rivers with my extended family in Jamaica\, the more these worlds seemed to swirl and eddy together.” – Hope Strickland
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/shorts-block-deposited-in-this-land-of-strangers/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY
DESCRIPTION:By Med Hondo | 116 mins | 1979 | Mauritania\, Algeria\, France \nMauritanian French director Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty\, presented at THFF25 in a new restoration\,  proved a watershed event for African cinema—the continent’s first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic\, Broadway revue\, Brechtian theater\, and joyous agitprop. Using an enormous mock slave ship as the film’s only soundstage\, Hondo mounts intricately choreographed reenactments and dance numbers across his multipurpose set to investigate more than three centuries of imperialist oppression. The story traverses the Caribbean\, Europe\, Africa\, and the Middle Passage; jumps across time to depict the effects of official French policy upon the colonized\, the enslaved\, and their descendants; and surveys the actions and motivations of the resigned\, the revolutionary\, and the powers that be (along with their lackeys). No mere extravaganza\, West Indies is a call to arms for a spectacular yet critical cinematic reimagining of an entire people’s history of resistance and struggle.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/west-indies-the-fugitive-slaves-of-liberty/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY
DESCRIPTION:By: Med Hondo \n\n\n\n\n\nCountry: Mauritania\, Algeria\, France\nLanguage: French w/English Subs\nDuration: 116 mins\nYear: 1979\nGenre: Fiction\n\n\n\nSYNOPSIS\n\n\n\n\nMauritanian French director Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty\, presented at THFF25 in a new restoration\,  proved a watershed event for African cinema—the continent’s first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic\, Broadway revue\, Brechtian theater\, and joyous agitprop. Using an enormous mock slave ship as the film’s only soundstage\, Hondo mounts intricately choreographed reenactments and dance numbers across his multipurpose set to investigate more than three centuries of imperialist oppression. The story traverses the Caribbean\, Europe\, Africa\, and the Middle Passage; jumps across time to depict the effects of official French policy upon the colonized\, the enslaved\, and their descendants; and surveys the actions and motivations of the resigned\, the revolutionary\, and the powers that be (along with their lackeys). No mere extravaganza\, West Indies is a call to arms for a spectacular yet critical cinematic reimagining of an entire people’s history of resistance and struggle. \nWe are pleased that THFF alumna filmmaker Annabelle Aventurin\, who oversaw the restoration of West Indies\, will be present for a special introduction to the film.  \nWest Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty screens at THFF25 as part of the retrospective program You Don’t Get Freedom\, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978–1985.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/west-indies-the-fugitive-slaves-of-liberty-2/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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