The wonders and traumas of family history and legacies explored

The Caribbean Film Series returns with a mesmerizing search for an Afro-Cuban musical legend and a full evening of standout short films all from Caribbean film & mediamakers

The Caribbean Film Series is kicking off 2023 with TWO feature films and two days of great Caribbean cinema

Our Fall ‘22 edition brings this film festival fave that OkayAfrica calls a “tender ode to the Black diaspora” to Brooklyn

A rare, Curaçao-filmed and based feature film, making its Brooklyn, NYC premiere. A multiple-award winner, Buladó was The Netherland’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.

Filmed on location with a cast of local Jamaicans, the film is an authentic case study of a country that continues to face the consequences of its turbulent past while trying to confront the new realities of sexuality and equality.

France’s history of colonialism and slavery in Haiti converge in this drama when  Melissa, an orphan of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, meets white French teen Fanny, who uses Melissa’s family origins to do the unthinkable.

The story of Bed-Stuy legend Rawlston “Charlie” Charles and how he put Calypso music on the map and ushered in a new genre of music, Soca

Akeem, nicknamed the Rasta Rocket for his once-in-a-generation speed, is set to be Jamaica’s next big track-and-field sensation. But his rising star is weighed down by a volatile father, and an unruly older brother, and Akeem’s hopes that his rise in athletics will take him to the U.S. to reunite him with his mother, who has supported the family while living as an illegal resident for over a decade.

a Brooklyn time-travel adventure to right yet another wrongful death from police violence

Caribbean cinema is at a highpoint critically and artistically, in the ways its filmmakers thrill, entertain, and inform audiences globally. Our new four-day festival here at BAM, not only marks the five-year anniversary of the Caribbean Film Series, but also provides an unparalleled platform to reflect on the Caribbean and its diasporic experiences, in new and unconventional ways. No ‘Jafaican’ accents here, our selections are the truth. See more here.

This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an abortion and lost her lover ; Jordan, a boxer who has indulged in gay-bashing ; and 'The General', a drug dealer turned artist.

Controversial Haitian buddy crime comedy screens alongside Shirley Bruno’s meditative short film “Tezen”

#BlackGirlMagic Blooms in Afro-Futurist ‘BROWN GIRL BEGINS,’ Inspired by Hit Novel “Brown Girl in the Ring”

Vashti Anderson’s feature film debut “Moko Jumbie” is an intense blurring of reality, fantasy, superstition, and truth. It’s preceded by Nile Saulter’s gripping short film “Coast” (pictured)

Set against the backdrop of Trinidad and Tobago's mystical Carnival, a gifted and struggling young man becomes the object of intrigue for an older, well-meaning businessman until their worlds collide.

Damani Baker’s intimate family portrait of his stalwart mother who moves her family to Grenada to fight for social justice and Black life, and encounters an invasion by the United States. Q&A with the Director following the film.

Carnival Meets Bollywood in the Machel Montano starring “Bazodee”