Discoveries from Bahamas World Cinema

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.

Rain is a spirited 14-year old who, after the death of her grandmother, seeks out her estranged mother in the big city of Nassau. Her dreams of a loving reconciliation are quickly shattered when she meets Glory, a scarred, proud, guarded woman bearing no resemblance to the mother she had hoped for.

A Bahamian Fisherman with a gambling addiction in Nassau takes a job smuggling Haitians to Florida in a desperate ploy to support his family.

A group of Haitian refugees is smuggled on a Bahamian fishing vessel from the Bahamas to the United States.

An urban romantic drama with a gangster flavour

Miss Milly (Tamara Marie Simms), A Bahamian mother places all her hopes into her only son Sam (Nathan J. Burrows). She invests her life savings for Sam’s tuition at a University in America, expecting Sam to return home and pave the way to her financial freedom and an early retirement. Sam rebels as he felt as if his mother’s expectations were too much. While on internship in Miami, Florida, Sam meets Robin (Charae’ Sands), a troubled American woman. He turns his back on his family and falls deeply in love with her. There will be trouble in paradise as this newly engaged couple goes on a truly life changing vacation to Sam’s Home in The Bahamas.

Afrofuturism and carnival as resistance at the Junkanoo festival in the Bahamas, from Aesthetica Art Prize winner Rhea Storr.

Junkanno Goddess Angelique McKay and The Genesis Warhawks navigate Junkanoo for the first time in 2 years as Christopher Davis introduces us to the story of Ahanta warrior Jan Kwaw aka John Canoe in a true display of black culture and its African Diaspora connections.

Watch Deranged alond with Whats In Your Hands and The Inheritance this coming Saturday December 7th at The Atlantis Theatre.