Jamaica Movies

A young black Jamaican girl from the underclass on the brink of womanhood works at a resort to support her large family. She faces a crisis of...

A young boy struggles with his widowed mother's decision to relocate the family from Jamaica to Canada.

A family convenes exactly 500 years after Charles V grants permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod ‘to import 4000 Africans into New Spain’....

A fictional short film that uses the horror genre to explore the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession, and the power of return/retrieval.

A retelling of the story of Queen Nanny, national heroine of Jamaica, in keeping with her broader significant real and symbolic roles as a shaman of...

Your friends and enemies have one thing in common, you! Mark leaves his girlfriend to be with Natasha, the girl he truly loves, but her brother...

Trench Town, Jamaica, is the most famous ghetto in the World. Immortalised by Bob Marley it is now one of the most dangerous places on the planet....

An inspirational actress who visits a sacred place in an unexplored region: Ai Yoshizaki is accompanied by a priest (exoscist) Yuji Kiba, a psychic...

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

Anansi the Spider must outsmart the biggest, most dangerous animals in the jungle… Or be eaten himself!

Jamaica For Sale is a powerful documentary about the economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism and unsustainable development in Jamaica....

In the wake of Hurricane Ivan, a prodigal son returns to his Jamaican community bearing strange revelations: he is the 'chosen one', a great flood is...

Experimental video installation by Kazuhiro Goshima.

Based on Jamaican folklore and the story of Rolling Calf - a supernatural being that is part calf and part man, with eyes of fire, that drags a...

Written and directed by Nile Saulter and based on a concept by Shamar Watt, Summon follows Suno, a young dancer torn between his Jamaican roots and...

Dexter’s life falls apart after a false theft accusation costs him his job. Desperate, he starts a taxi business, unknowingly picking up...

Report on the 1987 edition of FESPACO

Experimental short by Takashi Nakajima.