Discoveries from Barbados World Cinema

Hit For Six! is the story of a playboy West Indies cricketer who is still fighting the demons of his past, which includes a match-fixing charge. He learns about love as he struggles for his last chance to play in a major global tournament. And he desperately wants to earn the respect of his estranged father, a former great West Indies cricketer. This inspirational and emotional drama, punctuated with excitement, intrigue and love, recounts how Alex Nelson, a talented but inconsistent cricketer, has been sidelined from the West Indies team for scuffling with his coach, Amir Misra of India. Blackballed by the team for three years, he pursues an unlikely quest to get back on the team for a last chance to play in the Global One Day Series — an opportunity unfairly denied to his father.

A Jamaican doctor trained in Western medicine and in conflict with his family (all of whom are doctors) about his belef in the benefits of bush medicine, travels to Ghana to prove then wrong.

Shakespeare’s romantic comedy is re-told in the Caribbean and brought into the 21st Century when Theseus and Hippolyta, returning Nationals, come home to Barbados to be married during Crop Over festival time. The island’s early history, folklore, culture and stunning landscape, lends itself perfectly for the mysticism, comedy and chaos that ensues, the night before the nuptual celebrations.

Panic ensues when protests turn violent, and civilians are forced into survival as a mysterious viral outbreak plunges the island into further darkness.

The Errol Barrow docudrama, "Barrow: Freedom Fighter" tells the story about the courage of one man who relentlessly preached a gospel of economic self reliance and self respect to the people of his native country Barbados and beyond. He defied the status quo, confronted racism and classicism, fought colonial oppression and selflessly led his people to political and economic freedom.

When a video showing a mysterious giant creature appears on social media in Barbados, a trio of video journalists decide to investigate.

Dexter Gooding (Kirk Brown), an ex-convict, deported from the US returns to his homeland to find his beloved community Bakers Village engulfed in crime. The police are out-gunned and out-numbered. Rape, murder and robbery plague his once beautiful paradise. Armed with guilt of past crimes and a genuine passion for his birthplace, Dexter takes on the mission of Vigilante. In true Robin Hood style, Dexter mercilessly seeks to eradicate Bakers Village of all criminals. Its on this very ruthless path, he meets Amy (Malissa Alana), a white Barbadian woman, who is on a similar mission and their worlds collide. Black and white, rich and poor, upper and lower class, and as the their paths cross...the historical cap of racial, class and social prejudice, violently erupts and suddenly threatens the mission. Love, hate, passion, guilt and prejudice all meet head on and Dexter and his beloved Bakers Village are now at a Crossroad.

A youngster begins to understand the wisdom hidden within legendary whaler-man Tall 12's sea shanty songs in the whaling town of Barrouallie, St. Vincent, a place where men still wrestle with the creatures of the deep for survival. Against a backdrop of cruise-ship tourism and economic colonialism, this lyrical documentary discovers a surprising renewal of interest and hunger to preserve local traditions and cultural knowledge through new interpretations.

Romie, an aspiring mechanic and ladies man, with his brutally honest best friend Pack, invest their entire salaries in a down-payment on a garage. Their goal: to establish a successful mechanic's shop to get away from their boring jobs as security guards, their loving yet eccentric and demanding families, and poor standard of living in their village - Pickletons. Their simple task of making the down-payment to the garage owner at the village lime that night is hilariously complicated by Romie's love-life, and Pack's love for cannabis. The complications and laughs multiply as the best friends go to extremes to avoid violent drug men, a charity collector, crazy ex-girlfriends and other wacky villagers.

Having lost their jobs and unable to find new ones during an economic crisis, a young couple decides to take matters into their own hands in order to escape crippling debt. Their choice of actions infuriates the wrong people, thereby creating a whirlwind of chaos that they need to escape.

A young scholar witnesses the murder of a drug pusher and has to decide to either inform the police or help the brother of the murdered man, who is out for vengeance.

This short film examines the relationship between a dying mother, her estranged daughter, and her nurse, and the big secret that keeps them all apart.

Warren, a Barbados-born, London-raised aspiring rap artist, returns to Barbados to help his half-brother Chris scatter their father's ashes in the places their dad cherished. What begins as a journey of remembrance becomes an intimate road trip through Trinidad and Jamaica to discover the unbelievable history of their family.

A cosmic chess game between a king and a Rasta Sadhu.

Narrated by the artist’s aunt, Drax Sycorax shows Drax Hall’s modest Jacobean structure, St. Jude’s Cemetery where most of her paternal ancestors are buried, and Carlisle Bay, the port where merchant ships brought most enslaved people into Barbados.

Barbadian action comedy. A Bongolights movie production.

Torn between her family and her dreams, Tamara must choose which path she'll choose. An encounter with an old classmate shows her the two may not be as different as she imagined.

A family convenes exactly 500 years after Charles V grants permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod ‘to import 4000 Africans into New Spain’. The King’s act marks the escalation of a rupture, with its origins in 1492, that remakes the world and reverberates into the present. This apparent “start of slavery” becomes an occasion to tell the story of one family’s implication across time and space. In nobody’s word Taylor digitises and disintegrates the family archive in order to reframe accounts, destabilise claims and inhabit spaces between fact and fiction, questioning the narrative impulses that inform the stories we tell.

An investigative documentary on reparations becomes unexpectedly personal when a filmmaker returns home to Barbados to tell the story of Drax Hall, the oldest continuously-operated sugar plantation in the Americas, recently inherited by a wealthy British politician descended from the slave master who founded it.