Timehri Film Festival 2023

Filmmakers Pick

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14 films in package
Agwe
Bomba Ancestral
A short film about the first Bomba Ancestral returning to the ocean at sunset.
Burnt Milk
Burnt Milk centers around Una (voiced by Tamara Lawrance), an isolated Jamaican woman living in 1985 suburban London, working as a nurse on a maternity ward.
Clinch
Clinch, is a violent love story between two professional female boxers who must fight each other for a championship title.
Chee$e
In a remote island village “behind God’s back,” Skimma dreams of leaving the only place he’s ever known to explore the world.
Dorlis
After her grandfather is a paralyzed by a stroke, fifteen-year-old Nora goes with her mother and little sister to stay with him.
Fantastic Friday
Three high-spirited best friends venture on a wild journey to experience the ultimate Carnival fete. When their night takes an unexpected turn, they must navigate a series of unforeseen challenges that put their friendship to the test.
GHOST ISLAND
Set in the liminal space between our postcolonial reality and deep-seeded ancestral intuition, Ghost Island is both an interpretation of and an ode to the shadows that live around us.
Jonkonnu Nuh Dead
Los Cimarrones
The night finds Orestes in a thick tropical forest holding a machete and looking furiously for Damián, his younger brother.
Closed captions available
Something More than Masquerade
Something More Than Masquerade sees a young Pierrot Grenade contemplate the spirit of carnival.
Walter Rodney: What They Don't Want You To Know
Walter Rodney: What they don’t Want you to Know, is an original circa 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of Empire, and how that connects to the policing and surveillance practices of today.
Paroles de Negres
In 1842, the enslaved man Sébastien died in a cell on the island of Marie-Galante in Guadeloupe, following months of neglect.
Just 3 People Talking
A journalist and novelist now in her eighties, Joan has been working for decades along with her spirit guide Bassidy Dolly to realize her dreams for Yukuriba Heights, a once-self-sustainable farm and projected arts commune.

Not many Black women own a piece of the Amazon rainforest in our protracted age of gendered and racialized extraction.This Filmic meditation introduces audiences to one such person, Aunty Joan, whose possession of 357 acres of precious land remains far from settled. Informed by Afro-Indigenous Guyanese Spiritualist Komfa philosophies and practices, Joan is also Dolly, her ancestor Jumbi thought to be bassidy, or “flighty.” A journalist and novelist now in her eighties, Joan has been working for decades along with her spirit guide Bassidy Dolly to realize her dreams for Yukuriba Heights, a once-self-sustainable farm and projected arts commune.


JUST 3 PEOPLE TALKING, will screen as part of the Opening Night program.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    45 minutes
  • Language
    English, English Creole
  • Country
    guyana
  • Director
    Joan Cambridge-Mayfield and Jeremy Peretz
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