The Fleet's In

An independent crew organizes sound system-style events for their community in the far north of São Paulo, using reggae music as a central form of cultural expression and resistance. Through pulsating bass, street parties, and collective gatherings, they transform public space into a vibrant platform for the identity, memory, and voice of the urban periphery.

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl dupe a high rise riveter into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.

When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.

why some people be mad at me sometimes is a single channel experimental film that cites the mother of Dancehall Sister Nancy singing her song bam bam in dialogue with Maya Angelou’s performance of the poem The Mask. The video is a meditation on the misappropriation of Blackness within music, and how often Black folks are told to not criticize but to smile and be grateful. All while tracing the filmmakers' relationship to Dancehall and Afro Caribbean culture through archival footage of themselves as a young person dancing at Folklorama. Folklorama has the intention to be a space for sharing diverse cultures but oftentimes a space of cultural consumption that erases the colonial history of the countries that are on display.

Criola Beat Dancehall Style: Live Inna Reggae Cruise

A hypnotic dance-off in the Waterhouse community of Kingston, Jamaica that subverts elitist stereotypes of dancehall by invoking its spiritual and defiant force.

30 years after Bob Marley's death Jamaica continues to be on top of the world-wide music scene. Reggae has evolved into a new genre, Dancehall.

A man awakes ready to be tortured

Shakespearian actress Cordelia Coventry is about to give up on her career when she is chosen by director Bruce Rapport to become the star of a national ad campaign for Sudzall washing powder.

"No Reservations" is social commentary inspired by true-life events, giving a hypothetical look at what life would be like if the roles in Standing Rock were reversed. Protests erupt as an upper-middle class Caucasian neighborhood attempts to thwart the construction of a pipeline from an Indigenous Corporation.

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.

A Canadian mother travels to Florida with her 4 year-old daughter to take part in a mini-miss contest. Getting ready to compete becomes a cat-and-mouse game for the duo... but no one knows for sure who the cat is!

Two great friends who live in a small coastal town face an opportunity that will change their lives forever.

An animated short about four flavors of ice cream in an ice cream cart in a park. Where being popular can lead to your early demise. As can Global Warming which is what this short is about.

Boucar Diouf - Pour une raison X ou Y

3 amateur hijackers hijacked a tourist ship that is sailing in the Maluku Sea which contains several local tourists and Gomgom, the captain. They are Daniel (Ge Pamungkas) who wants to prove to his parents that even the child of a rich people can work, Cakka (Muhadkly Acho) who needs money for her sick mother, and Bertus (Mamat Alkatiri), unemployed. Because of their stupidity they sink the ship and stranded on an empty island. Resistance from the hostages is driven by Tiara (Yuki Kato) and from other passengers: the Burhan family consisting of Father (Arief Didu), Mother (Asri Welas) and their child (Romaria Simbolon), husband and wife on their honeymoon, Darto (Yusril) and Salma (Naomi Papilaya), as well as three students, Noni (Andi Anissa), Cika (Ryma Shepherd) and Agung (Ananta Rispo).

Although they have loved each other since childhood without admitting it, a surgeon and a young woman see their love thwarted by life.

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

The film stars Tim Henry as Billie Joyce, a gay and transvestite former musician who has been institutionalized in an asylum due to mental illness. Inheriting the smalltown hotel formerly owned by his deceased father, he returns home intending to sell the hotel to real estate developer Oscar Kidd (Robert A. Silverman), but soon finds himself in the position of defending the rights of the hotel's staff against Kidd's renovation plans.