Narrative Shorts

Narrative Shorts

Narrative Shorts
  • Mi Casa

    A young father struggles to find a way back home to his family amidst closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Extras

  • Manic

    A news anchor reports that several people have gone missing, insinuating that these people have been kidnapped, and hinted at the work of a possible serial kidnapper in the Georgetown area. After she reports this news, she rushes home and is distraught by the missing persons and the usual procedu...

  • Home School

    A University student navigates her seemingly infinite boredom, and her lack of motivation to do ‘schoolwork,’ while on lockdown in her dorm room, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • How To Build A Treehouse

    A lone guitarist sits on the Sea Wall, on Guyana's Atlantic coast, strumming his guitar. He closes his eyes and begins hearing powerful words in the ancient and native Patamona language, perhaps the voice of ‘Kai’. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in a new, unfamiliar place. Guided by the...

  • The Knot

    Gina and Gerald secretly cast love spells on each other. Now, they are unhappily together, but unable to leave the relationship, because of their spells. Can they undo what they've done?

  • Sugar

    “SUGAR” – A young black Jamaican girl from the underclass and on the brink of womanhood, works at a Jamaican resort where she witnesses tourists’ affluence on a daily basis. As the de facto breadwinner for her very large family, she faces a crisis of conscience, when a tourist couple seems to be ...

  • Short Drop

    A lonely, elderly man gets mistaken for a taxi driver while on a morning drive through the busy streets of Port-of-Spain. What follows is a long day of reckoning with memories, friendships and revelations.

  • Ti Coq

    Josué, is a roguish boy living with his grandmother. He has a pet rooster he loves, and wishes to train him to become a dreaded fighting cock. A succession of unexpected events, however, looks set to frustrate his plans.

  • This City of Mine

    A young woman struggles to navigate Kingston's public transportation system and some harassing encounters, all while trying to make it to her first day of work on time.

  • After Mas

    AFTER MAS is a new short film from London-based Trinidadian filmmaker Karen Martinez. It tells the story of a love that flourishes under the cover of darkness during the festival of J'ouvert on the streets of Port-of-Spain. Shot in Trinidad in February 2013 during Carnival, we experience the char...

  • In Between Life

    Mona sits between stuffed dead animals, faded paintings and cloying antiques in her prop shop...she raises a gun to her head. Mona has suffered depression for years and feels she is neither alive nor dead. She is about to squeeze the trigger when her two closest friends interrupt her with a surpr...

  • Entre Deux

    A man is alone in a wasteland, when a phone in a booth rings … He hesitates, but finally picks up the phone. An unknown woman is talking, mistaking him for someone else …

  • Big Man Dan

    Sheila calls on her brave husband, Dan, for help when she spots a cockroach in their bathroom. But when the roach flies, Dan loses all sense and imagines the roach is a kung-fu master who he must fight with all his might to protect his defenceless wife. After observing Dan’s approach to tackling ...

  • Standing

    When John channels his restlessness into resistance he learns first hand what it means
    to come against power...and what it means to have people power.

    Inspired by the short film, “Clap (One Day)”, directed by Terence Nance.

  • Parish Bull

    Michael is the PARISH BULL!!! Confident, charming and without scruples, Michael is not afraid to make his bed, but he may be afraid to lay in it.

  • Jab in the Dark

    A troubled night security guard working at a container compound is caught between drug addiction and debt. In an effort to help, his friend coerces him into taking something from his brother’s container. However, this friend has his own agenda.

    Having opened the container, the guard must now n...

  • Vivre

    A teacher asks her class, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” While his joyful classmates respond, Tom, a quiet 10-year-old boy, slips away.

  • No Soca No Life

    “NO SOCA NO LIFE,” tells the story of Olivia, a teenage girl from an impoverished community with a fabulous singing voice, honed in the church choir. When she decides to use her voice to sing soca however, Olivia must face many hurdles – not least of all a stiff opposition from her mother.

  • Auntie

    “AUNTIE,” is a middle-aged seamstress and respected caregiver in her rural Barbadian community. Raising children whose parents are unwilling or unable, Auntie instills discipline, traditional values and a strong moral code. Twelve-year-old KERA is her latest ward and a special child to whom she h...

  • Coast

    When Patasha is called upon to make a routine delivery to a young tourist couple, she encounters a situation that will test her morality. The young spear-fisherman Samson also wants to make a transaction, but this one is of a more sinister nature. Coast is an examination of choices, and how ugly ...

  • 10 Ave Maria

    No man is an island, it is said. In this beautifully observed film, we follow Mark, a lonely young man in search of happiness. Through his daily encounters he struggles with his desires and his fears, until at last he is forced to come face to face with himself.

  • The Little Boy and the Ball

    Richard, a 10-year-old boy who lives with his grandparents, has an attachment to a soccer ball as if it were his best friend. Everywhere Richard goes, so goes the ball. As time progresses, the ball develops different blemishes as a result of their activities together. We are reminded that inanima...