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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T100000
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SUMMARY:SHORTS BLOCK: WHY DOES THE AIR TREMBLE?
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM DESCRIPTION\n\n\n\n\nFilmmaking 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. \nA Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening. \n\n\nNOBODY’S WORD \nBy Camara Taylor | 13 mins | 2025 | Barbados\, Jamaica\, UK \nA 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 marks the escalation of a rupture\, with its origins in 1492\, that remakes the world and reverberates into the present. This apparent “start of slavery” becomes an occasion to tell the story of one family’s implication across time and space. In nobody’s word\, the family archive is digitised and disintegrated  in order to reframe accounts\, destabilise claims\, and inhabit spaces between fact and fiction\, questioning the narrative impulses that inform the stories we tell. \nLOS CONJURADOS \nBy  Humberto Gonzalez Bustillo | 9 mins | 2025 | Venezuela \nA lone cyberflâneur stumbles upon a hidden corner of Google Maps\, a forgotten place unfolding in the static. Shadows pace aimlessly\, paths dissolve into nowhere\, and figures flicker in and out of existence—fragments of untold stories. A shattered\, distorted voice lingers\, unrelenting\, signaling borders and exile\, both imagined and imposed. Still\, the search goes on\, endless. \nLA SELVA OSCURA (DARK FOREST) \nBy  Lucía Malandro and Daniel Saucedo | 15 mins | 2024 | Cuba\, Spain \nLa selva oscura is a record of a long journey connecting two funeral rituals in Cuba: the state burial honoring those who fell in the Angola war and a spiritist ceremony welcoming spirits of the past back into the world of the living. These events\, captured by Cuban amateur documentaries filmed in 1987\, intertwine to form the core of this film\, whose central reflections revolve around loss and oblivion. \nNADA FUERA DE LA ISLA: PUENTES (NOTHING OUT OF THE ISLAND: BRIDGES) \nBy  Dalissa Montes de Oca | 16 mins | 2024 | Dominican Republic \nFragmented memories and visions find a home in light and shadows\, bridging the gap between the past\, the present\, and the loss of a mother. \nPURO ANDAR \nBy  Luciana Decker Orozco | 13 mins | 2025 | Bolivia \nA journey to the underworld begins within our own entrails\, shaped by the flesh we consume and the softened crumbs moistened by the saliva of mothers. This film explores the becoming of different times\, from the intimate rhythm of digestion to the vast expanse of geological eras: stalagmites formed over millennia\, fossilized dinosaur tracks\, and the echoes of primordial movements\, akin to growling. The film is inspired by the chapter “Puro Andar” from El Pez de Oro by Gamaliel Churata\, which states that “we all carry the dead alive; that the dead live.”
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/shorts-block-why-does-the-air-tremble/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T120000
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SUMMARY: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
DESCRIPTION:By: Abdenour Zahzah \n\n\n\n\n\nCountry: Algeria\, France\nLanguage: Arabic\, French w/English Subs\nDuration: 90 mins\nYear: 2024\nGenre: Fiction\n\n\n\nSYNOPSIS\n\n\n\n\n1953\, 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 of the Algiers School of Psychiatry\, a war breaks out on his own wards. \nA Q+A with Abdenour Zahzah will follow the screening.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/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/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:SCREENING THE STRUGGLE: CARIBBEAN ACTIVIST CINEMA REGAINED
DESCRIPTION:This 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 seek to situate the films within the current moment. \nThrough the perspectives of filmmakers\, activists\, and researchers involved in the making and restoration of the films—namely\, Women of Suriname (1978)\, Bitter Cane (1983)\, Sweet Sugar Rage (1985)\, and West Indies (1979)—we will investigate the material conditions of Caribbean working people\, past and present\, and the ways these films engaged with themes of (neo) colonialism\, capitalism\, immigration\, and collective struggle. Additionally\, panelists will explore the challenges of film restoration\, the question of preserving politically radical works\, and what it means to reclaim this history for contemporary movements. \nThis program is supported by: Dutch Culture USA at the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and The Netherland-America Foundation 
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/screening-the-struggle-caribbean-activist-cinema-regained/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:EN PARÁBOLA/CONVERSATIONS ON TRAGEDY (PART I)
DESCRIPTION:By: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo \n\n\n\n\n\nCountry: Puerto Rico\nLanguage: English and Spanish w/English Subs\nDuration: 63 mins\nYear: 2024\nGenre: Non-Fiction\n\n\n\nSYNOPSIS\n\n\n\n\nEn 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 through a multi-year process of collaborative theatrical rehearsal and experimental filmmaking\, the work emerged through the cast’s revising\, re-writing\, and performing of the myth of Antigone inspired by their lived and inherited experiences of migration and belonging. Taking the form of a multi-channel film\, En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I) seeks to connect these communities after decades of geographical fragmentation\, colonial erasure\, dispossession\, and cumulative environmental\, economic\, and political tragedies. \nA Q+A with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo will follow the screening.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/en-parabola-conversations-on-tragedy-part-i/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T173000
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SUMMARY:BITTER CANE
DESCRIPTION:By Ben Dupuy and Kim Ives | 77 mins | 1983 | Haiti \nFilmed 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 foreign-owned sweatshops in the capital\, Port-au-Prince\, the film takes the viewer on a journey through Haitian history to a deeper grasp of the country’s political economy today. The film explores the Haiti of the 1980s\, a perspective that helps the viewer to better understand the crises that wrack the country now. Bitter Cane shows how foreign capitalists were beginning to drive peasants off the land and into the cities\, creating giant shanty towns which have spawned crime\, dislocation\, and anarchy. Today\, 40 years later\, we are seeing the culmination of this socio-economic upheaval\, which has left the country facing its third foreign military occupation in three decades.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/bitter-cane/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T173000
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SUMMARY:BITTER CANE
DESCRIPTION:By: Ben Dupuy\, Kim Ives \n\n\n\n\n\nCountry: Haiti\nLanguage: Kreyòl\, French\, and English\, w/English subtitles\nDuration: 77 mins\nYear: 1983\nGenre: Non-Fiction\n\n\n\nSYNOPSIS\n\n\n\n\nFilmed 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 foreign-owned sweatshops in the capital\, Port-au-Prince\, the film takes the viewer on a journey through Haitian history to a deeper grasp of the country’s political economy today. The film explores the Haiti of the 1980s\, a perspective that helps the viewer to better understand the crises that wrack the country now. Bitter Cane shows how foreign capitalists were beginning to drive peasants off the land and into the cities\, creating giant shanty towns which have spawned crime\, dislocation\, and anarchy. Today\, 40 years later\, we are seeing the culmination of this socio-economic upheaval\, which has left the country facing its third foreign military occupation in three decades. \nA Q+A with Kim Ives will follow the screening. \nBitter Cane screens at THFF25 as part of the retrospective program You Don’t Get Freedom\, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978–1985. \nTo read more about the restoration process of Bitter Cane\, click HERE.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/bitter-cane-2/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T200000
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SUMMARY:LA BACHATA DE BIONICO (BIONICO’S BACHATA)
DESCRIPTION:By: Yoel Morales \n\n\n\n\n\nCountry: Dominican Republic\nLanguage: Spanish w/English Subs\nDuration: 80 mins\nYear: 2024\nGenre: Fiction\n\n\n\nSYNOPSIS\n\n\n\n\nA 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 woman he loves. \nA Q+A with Yoel Morales will follow the screening.
URL:https://koubekcenter.org/event/la-bachata-de-bionico-bionicos-bachata/
LOCATION:Koubek Center\, 2705 SW 3rd Street\, Miami\, FL\, 33135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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