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A nurse longs for her island in a cold, forbidding city. The ghosts of migrant laborers sing songs of lament and hope. A group of young people contemplate their relationship to their island. An island vampire exports life-sustaining home soil across the diaspora. Members of a family journey through blood-stained ancestral land. And a young father awaits word from his wife across the sea.

Burnt Milk centers around a monologue by Una (voiced by Tamara Lawrance), an isolated Jamaican woman in London around 1985. As she takes a moment of solace to make Burnt Milk, she is flooded with spiritual imagery that takes her home.
  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    9 minutes
  • Language
    Jamaican Patois, English
  • Country
    Jamaica, United Kingdom
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Director
    Joseph Douglas-Elmhirst
  • Cast
    Tamara Lawrance, Clover Webb