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While people across 1990’s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year-old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President’s birthday. In a landscape of fear and scarcity, where basic ingredients are nearly impossible to find, Lamia sets out on a determined journey throughout the big city in search of eggs, flour, and sugar. Accompanied by her grandmother, her loyal friend Saeed, and her pet rooster Hindi, she navigates vendors and police officers along the way.
Set in the Bahamas, this funny and uplifting family film follows 16 year-old Justice as she overcomes racial prejudice and brings change to her community - all while having the time of her life learning to sail!
Not Gay is a compilation of 4 short films exploring the joys and frustrations of gay / straight friendships. Includes: The Best Men (2007); Float (2007); Cowboy Forever (2006); Katydid (2004).
A group of Haitian refugees is smuggled on a Bahamian fishing vessel from the Bahamas to the United States.
A documentary which follows a group of siblings who eke out their existence from the offerings and other goods found in the sacred Bagmati River.
Asa Jones, a girl from Louisiana wants to conquer the world of girls’ basketball. When she sees her shot at a college scholarship slipping away, she begins to lose herself to a captivating force.
The story of a young painter from the Bahamas, Jonny Roberts, who travels to an exotic island to find inspiration but finds unexpected love and adventure in a complex and tortured Romeo.
For Ahmad Joudeh, a stateless refugee from Syria, dance is not a choice, it’s a lifeline – etched onto his very skin with the words “Dance or Die.” Having defied war and family disapproval to join the Dutch National Ballet, Ahmad found sanctuary in the Netherlands, becoming a UNHCR and LGBTQI+ Ambassador. But haunted by the trauma of his past, he makes a perilous decision: to return to Syria for the first time since the war, risking everything to bring the healing power of dance to a community still ravaged by conflict.
When a high school student is arrested with a small amount of drugs, the police pressure her to become an informant—forcing her to choose between the people she most loves and the future she's worked so hard to create.
A Bahamian Fisherman with a gambling addiction in Nassau takes a job smuggling Haitians to Florida in a desperate ploy to support his family.
Johnny is an art student in Nassau whose technique is perfect, but he’s creatively blocked. His teacher sends him off to the rural island of Eleuthera where he meets Romeo, a hot musician. They begin a clumsy dance of attraction and romance. Romeo has a fiancé and is identified as straight, but he’s been known to play with the boys on the side secretly. The Bahamas are bound by religious traditions that discourage homosexuality and end up forcing gay men into the closet. These characters are all bound together in this intense drama of love, family and secrets.
Plot TBA; described as a tense, emotionally grounded thriller exploring themes of generational trauma, power dynamics, and the quiet ruptures that ignite when personal histories collide.
