Dir. Roshdy Ahmed (Egypt, 2017) 15 min / Rated xx

An Egyptian artist named Khaled decides to investigate a murder case of a child who is selling sweet potato in Tahrir square. He receive visions and nightmares about the child during his journey of investigation until he reaches a point where it is a dead end, And the case takes him to an outcome that is out of his exceptions

Dir. Rosendo Bol (Belize, 2019) 10 min /Rated PG-13

Dir. Paul Pryce & Ron Morales (Trinidad & Tobago, 2018) 14 min / Rated R

When a desperate fisherman’s protest hunger strike fails to stop a corrupt government from destroying his village, he brokers a deal with a mercurial drug runner to save his village by trafficking cocaine in fishing boats between Trinidad and Venezuela.

Dir. Leroy Mcloughlin (Belize, 2019) 22 min / Rated G

A young girl, named Tecuani, encounters the mythical ‘Tata Duende’ in a cave she discovered in the forest. The Duende proceeds to tell her the real, but long forgotten, history of her people. She discovers her ancestors, once part of a great ancient civilisation fell victim to a greedy few who destroyed their only islands life-supporting forests, rivers and reefs. As their people descended into starvation and conflict the greedy few denied responsibility instead pointing the finger of blame at the majestic yet voiceless jaguar. A small group managed to escape across the stormy Arawak Sea hopelessly seeking a new beginning on an island which exists only in stories. Join us to discover how their fate and Tecuani’s are entwined!

Dir. Toby Wosskow ( USA, South Africa, 2018) 17 min / Rated G

From Executive Producer Sir Richard Branson, Sides of a Horn is the first film to tell the story of Africa’s poaching war from both sides of the fence. Based on actual events, and filmed in one of the communities most directly impacted by wildlife crime, we follow the journey of two brothers-in-law fighting on opposite sides of Africa’s poaching war. This dramatic short film paints an unbiased portrait of a modern war that is tearing communities apart and driving a prehistoric species to the verge of extinction.

Dir. Juliette McCawley (Trinidad & Tobago, 2019) 15:30 min / Rated PG-13

A young widower lives in self-imposed exile deep in the country, haunted by a tragic secret. One day an unexpected visitor from his past makes him confront his shattered life.

Dir. Jessica Mendez Siqueiros (USA,2018) 10 min / Rated PG

When Maia, a mixed race Latina woman, sets out to reconnect with her traditional Mexican roots on her Nana’s 100th birthday, things go terribly wrong. A dark comedy about what it means to be the ‘other’ in the family.

Dir. Fernando Cruz (Cuba, 2018) 14 min / Rated R

Maite is a high school girl that makes a lot of effort to lead a life similar to those her own age, but the sordid environment she lives in and the responsibilities that fall on her shoulders prevent her from being taken seriously by her peers. In spite all this, she feels she can save herself, because through her imagination she can recreate the world in the most beautiful way possible.

Dir. Alwin Bully (Dominica, 2017) 27 mins / Rated G

Oseyi, (age 10) lives in Colihaut, a remote village in Dominica where an ancient carnival/masquerade art form called “Bann Mové”(Bad Band) is still practiced. But Oseyi has a great fear of these masqueraders due to his mother’s constant repetition that “Bann Mové kill your father”. When, with his uncle’s insistence and his friend Tamika’s assistance, he forces himself into the costume, he discovers an astonishing truth about his mother, the actual circumstances surrounding his father’s death and his uncle’s role in it. With this new knowledge he overcomes his fear, begins to understand his world and starts becoming a man.

Dir. Maina Diniz & Marjorie Rocka (Brazil, 2018) 14:40 min / Rated PG-13

Dalila lives between lines and color, until, at a certain moment, she is captured by Gustavo’s lenses.

Dir. Lester L. Lewis (Canada,2017) 15 min / Rated PG-13

Louis and Kate are celebrating 5 years of a beautiful seemingly perfect relationship. There’s only one problem. Although they are both aware and have taken measures to adjust, there is no getting away from the fact that she is literally too good to be true, and that he’s all caught up in reality.

Dir. Mariama Diallo (USA, 2018) 12:11 min / Rated PG-13

In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

Dir. Mariana Martinez Gomez (Mexico, 2018) 13:07 min / Rated PG-13

Press photographer Franco is covering the political campaign of a reputedly violent and demonic man. Unbeknownst to the latter, Franco captures a shot that greatly displeases the security service. A race against the clock starts.…

Dir. Kia Moses / Co-Dir: Adrian McDonald (Jamaica, 2018) 13:08 min / Rated G

A Jamaican boy sets out on a dream, ten times his size, to fly to the moon, despite his circumstances and father’s opposition.

Dir. Renata Diniz (Brazil, 2019 ) 15 min / Rated G

Amani is a Muslim Pakistani girl. When she moves into her new home, she receives an unexpected gift from her Brazilian neighbour: a bikini.

Dir. Arjanmar H. Rebeta (Philippines, 2018) 15 min / Rated PG-13

An aging Caucasian has a phone conversation with his young Filipina lover who tried her best to win him and persuade to visit her country. During the conversation, he sees her beauty and contrasting social ills surrounding her until the phone is snatched making him witness an unforgettable sight.

Dir. Alexandra Lexton (Belize/USA, 2019) 67 min/ Rated

The Lure of this Land is an exploration of why people leave the places they know and love. Why do they leave their homelands? What are they looking for? What do they find? Filmmaker Alexandra Lexton came to Belize and found these stories: A story of a place, the story of others, and the more personal internal voyage of the foreigner in a foreign land. Among others, we meet people who have left everything to regenerate and rediscover themselves: Zookeeper Sharon Matola who has made the Belize Zoo out of Belize’s rescued indigenous and threatened creatures, nature documentary filmmakers Richard and Carol Foster, and eco lodge originators Mick and Lucy Fleming. Behind every door we find another story, another person who had the drive to change their life… and to risk for a time getting lost.

Dir. Edgar Soberon Torchia (Panama, 2019) 60 min / Rated G

PANAMA RADIO is the story of two girlfriends and a music store. They worked together from the 1950s to the 80s, during the peak years of recorded music sales, in a store in the center of Panama City, visited by Tito Puente, La Lupe, José José, Celia Cruz, Julio Iglesias and many other stars. It is also an account of the evolution of women’s roles in the post-war labor field in Panama, and of the boom of national orchestras and combos, as told by its two protagonists and popular artists of the times.

Dir. Alison Saunders (Barbados, Toronto, Cuba, Panama, 2018) 82 min / Rated PG

Panama Dreams transports us on the modern – day search of the filmmaker for descendants of an ancestor who left Barbados in the early 1900s to build the Panama Canal – one of the seven wonders of the modern world. She uncovers the complex history of that migration and troubling issues of race and discrimination that faced the West Indians on the Canal Zone and their descendants to the present day.

Dir. Nicole Schafer (South Africa,Sweden, 2019) 110 min / Rated PG 13

In a Chinese Buddhist orphanage in Africa, the film follows Enock Alu, a Malawain teenage from a rural village growing up between the contrasting worlds of his traditional African culture and the strict discipline of the Confucian, Buddhist value system of the Chinese. Once the start performer with dreams of becoming a martial arts hero like Jet Li , Enock, in his final year at school, has to make some touch decisions about his future and finds himself torn between returning to his relatives in the village or going abroad to study in Taiwan. Against the backdrop of China’s global rise and influence in Africa, the film is a subtle exploration of the forces of cultural soft power on the identity and imagination of an African boy and his school friends growing up between two cultures.