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- The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.
- Determined to reconcile with the mother who abandoned her when she was just a toddler, a Bahamian adolescent boards a local mail boat and sets sail for Nassau in director Maria Govan's intimate family drama. Rain has lived a sheltered life on Ragged Island, but now the death of her grandmother has forced her to get out and explore the world on her own. Upon arriving in Nassau the young girl is overwhelmed by the sights of the big city, and soon finds her idealistic illusions shattered when she witnesses firsthand just how deviant and destructive her mother's lifestyle has truly become. Stranded in a an unfamiliar environment that fills her with dread and confronted by a mother she has never known, Rain searches deep within herself to summon the strength needed to find her own place in the world.
- Exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving, What My Mother Told Me is a dramatic journey towards self discovery. The story focuses on Jesse, a young woman from England, who goes to Trinidad to bury her father. Reluctantly she agrees to meet her mother, whom she thought had abandoned her when she was a child. Her mother tells her stories, revealing a troubled and violent marriage, and Jesse is forced to face the truth about her past.
- After Tisha, a streetwise teenager from the Bronx, discovers she's pregnant and receives no support from her community, she has nowhere to turn and is faced with the most difficult decision she will ever make.
- Shots ring out one winter night, and a bullet meant for a local dealer kills a child. In the aftermath of shock, Gene, a 40 something social worker starts a Black men's support group, at the local Caribbean Takeaway Restaurant.
- A sidelined West Indies cricketer fights demons of his past, including a match fixing charge, and learns about love in an unlikely quest to play in a major global tournament and earn the respect of his estranged father, a former great West Indies player.
- A young Parisian woman of Caribbean descent returns to her native island of Guadeloupe looking for the father she has never known.
- When 16 year old Otelo Buthelezi, his best friend, New Year, and his 12 year old brother, Ntwe, are invited to the beach-house of their new friend, Tau Modise, they step into a world previously closed to them. It is exactly the opposite of their township- a place under a constant and growing threat from political violence, driven by Inkatha hostel dwellers on one side and township United Democratic Front comrades on the other. Soon, everyone recognizes that Otelo is gifted on the water, a god in waiting for his purpose. An older white man, Kurt Struely, approaches the boys, certain of their potential and invites them to his home to watch some professional surfers on video. He paints them an enticing picture of the life to be had, if they can master every kind of break - money for nothing and the chicks for free. The boys practice and, under Struely's watchful eye, become really good. Otelo outshines his teacher, Tau, who begins to resent the obvious natural talent of his friend. His resentment builds even more when Dezi, New Year's younger sister, falls for Otelo. When Struely enters the boys into their first 'localism' competition, Tau persuades his cousin, Stembiso, to look after Ntwe at the township pool where the boys learnt to swim. But while the boys are carving out new paradigms on the water, Tau breaks his prized surfing board and Ntwe is burnt to death with a tire necklace as a suspected informer for the apartheid security police. When Otelo, with New Year's help, discovers the truth behind his younger brother's death, he has to make a choice between the money, glamour, girls and superstardom of international surfdom and justice for Ntwe. On the day Nelson Mandela steps out of prison for the first time in 27 years, what this boy chooses will resonate for audiences everywhere. He whisks her off and they spend a day of pure joy and freedom. For a moment, Anna forgets her predicament. But there is one problem. He does not have a South African passport. Now Anna must choose: between marrying for the sake of personal freedom, or loving even if it means having to leave.
- Public School Teacher Nix Dunn turns to an extreme form of teaching to get his message across.
- A wildly irreverent take on lack church life. Canada's first truly multicultural sitcom.
- After being abandoned by her lover, Maya is desperate to find money to take care of her child. Unwanted sexual advances and begging are what she has been reduced to. But the tables will turn.
- College Lifestyle TV Series is a Jamaican production that focuses on Lifestyle, Entertainment, Travel, Career, Food, Extreme Sports, Campus Life with a underlying positive story-line, a celebration of the value of education and the excellence in our Caribbean people.
- What happens when talent isn't enough? When, in spite of a life of work, you look around in the autumn of your life and discover that your world is not what you thought it would be. This is where we meet Trinidadian jeweller, Barbie Jardine. Trained at England's prestigious Royal College of Art, Jardine moved back to her native Trinidad in 1974 where she developed new techniques in working with traditional and indigenous materials, and evolved a personal narrative style for making wearable works of art. But 30 years on from returning to the Caribbean, and in spite of having her work purchased by a major metropolitan museum, there are nagging questions she just can't shake: Why isn't my work more recognised? Have I made a crucial mistake? She is resentful and angry. And she wants something more. An opportunity to create a new piece for an exhibition in Scotland presents itself and Barbie is both nervous and hopeful. Will this be the chance to finally carve out her own space in the world? Filmed over three years, in Trinidad, England and Scotland, 'The Solitary Alchemist' is a moving and intimate portrait of a life in art.
- The series profiles Caribbean-Canadian Authors.
- A king is forced to take a second wife in order to bear him a male child. However, the child turns out to be a girl. His first wife also announces that she is also pregnant, giving birth to another girl. Who becomes the next ruler? Will the King live long-enough to crown a grandson?
- Finder of Lost Children' is the story of two half-sisters that meet for the first time at the funeral of the father neither one of them knew. These reluctant siblings make a road trip to deal with their father's meager possessions and in so doing discover the existence of several other lost brothers and sisters who are unaware of their father's passing. The two mismatched sisters decide to extend the road trip to find their lost siblings and along the way they discover the keys to their past and future through the secrets and lies that confront them - buoyed by the humour and humanity that is the irrepressible Caribbean spirit.
- The film follows the life of Not Nycx, an ex-gang member from Toronto, after becoming a victim of gun violence.
- Stories of Single Black Mothers is a collective memory of single mothers. What emerges from this story is a counter to stereotypes, that is replaced by a complex and richly detailed portrait of real women.
- A man struggles to change lifestyle of crime and violence. In his journey, he has to keep his past a secret from the woman he has fallen in love with.
- After being abandon by her lover, Maya is desperate to find money to take care of her child. Unwanted sexually advance and begging is what she has now been reduced to. However, the tables will turn.
- A young woman watches her father abuse her mother. One day her mother takes off and goes back to her village. The young woman seeks help from a friend and she must learn how to survive.
- A story of royalty plagued by mysterious beauty, setbacks, betrayal and expectations, Dark Angels interfered in the affairs of the kingdom by granting one of their own as a gift to the childless royal family with damning consequences.
- This award winning documentary charts the journey of the African woman from slavery in the caribbean to slavery, through music dance and poetry.