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Showing 1 - 10 of 74 titles with a criteria of Subject is Caribbean Studies
The Absent House
Sustainable design in the tropics. The story of a Puerto Rican architect pioneering locally-suited green buildings for over thirty years.
Icarus Films | 2013 | 55 minutes
Alabba
A window into the world of Santeria - a uniquely Cuban religious tradition into which one must be initiated by a 'godmother' or 'godfather' -- and introduces us to practitioners of the religion ranging in age from their 40s to their late 90s.
Icarus Films | 2010 | 40 minutes
The Alarm Rings Softly
Caribbean women use drama and reggae to fight domestic violence.
Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 12 minutes
Babygirl
A high-class woman has one of her maid's granddaughters under her care. She must decide between giving the girl back or keeping her in the family.
Pragda Films | 2023 | 92 minutes
Baracoa. 500 Years Later
Baracoa, the small town surrounded by mountains and rivers, is immersed in its own legend and in the work and dreams of its people. It prevails half a millennium from the day in which Christopher Columbus planted the “Parra” Cross on its shore. It was Cuba’s initial capital.
Pragda Films | 2010 | 61 minutes
Before a Rooster Crows
Carmín is a teenager who lives in Barranquitas, a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico, with her tough and conservative grandmother. She dreams of moving to the city with a mother whose planes do not include her.
Pragda Films | 2016 | 98 minutes
Black Dawn
An animated account of Haiti's liberation told through the eyes of two African slaves.
Icarus Films | 1979 | 20 minutes
Black in Latin America, Ep. 01 - Haiti & Dominican Republic: An Island Divided
In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed, while In Haiti, hear the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic.
Pragda Films | 2011 | 60 minutes
Black in Latin America, Ep. 02 - Cuba: The Next Revolution
In Cuba, Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music are linked to slave labor, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution in 1959.
Pragda Films | 2011 | 60 minutes
Boca Chica
An example of the brilliance of the new wave of Dominican cinema, Boca Chica exposes how local social norms present the sexualization of young girls as a path to survival.
Pragda Films | 2023 | 97 minutes
