Jamaica Movies

Dean is suffering the pains of adolescence at a rough Kingston high school. When his class gets a weekend assignment to read Shakespeare’s...

This is Ska is a Hi-Energy documentary on JAMAICAN dance music from 1964

A portrait of a group of young inmates at the General Penitentiary in Kingston, Jamaica, who participate in a rehabilitation program through music....

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

Experimental short by Tetsuo Furudate.

Cymbal (Mykal Fax) and his friends Job (Steve McAlpin), Tubby (Shawn Cummings) and Rupert (Narada Campbell) live by the gun until they take on more...

As Jamaica's beaches are increasingly captured by private and tourist interests, a movement fights to reclaim access to the island's coastline,...

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

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...

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

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...

Reality begins to unravel for Hyacinth when a woman claiming to be her daughter arrives at her doorstep on her wedding anniversary.

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...

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....

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...

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...

Report on the 1987 edition of FESPACO