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Culture Clash

Documentary | USA | 2014 | 56 mins | English | HD

Filled with riveting interviews of second-generation Caribbean immigrants and the challenges they face in holding to their family heritage while embracing American culture. In recent years, immigrant communities have stayed in closer communication with their homelands through cable and satellite television and the internet. While this makes it possible for the second generation to retain a stronger ethnic identity, at the same time, television, movies, and the Internet create a powerful homogenizing force, pulling the children of immigrants in two different directions.

God Willing Yuli

Feature Documentary | Haiti, Dominican Republic | 2015 | 70 min. | French Creole with English/French/Spanish Subtitles |

The life of Yuli, a Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic for more than 35 years. It has always been a struggle to bring up her children with dignity, while dealing with her precarious immigration status. The child for whose sake she crossed the border in the early eighties returns home and finds his mother — after all this time — still trying to regularize her situation in line with the Dominican government’s plan.

John Agitation Caratal

Short Documentary | Trinidad and Tobago | 2016 | 20 min. | English |

John Agitation is a ‘superstar’ of comedy in Trinidad and Tobago. He is rated the first stand-up comedian in the local arena. Here, he recounts his past and recollects an unfortunate incident that forced him to relocate from the community he knew and loved.

Never

Short Film | Barbados | 2016 | 19 min. | English |

As he brutalizes his own body, a man is forced to deal with demons from his childhood.

Of Men and Gods

Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire | Haiti | 52 min. | 2002 | Subtitles in English, French and Spanish | |
A very sensitive topic about those with the will to live and to be who they are – regardless of the obstacles they meet.