Discoveries from Guadeloupe World Cinema

Apartment blocks with no future are being torn down in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Malaury Eloi-Paisley follows those lost in the city through the empty streets. Their accounts form a valuable commodity, circulating in carefully developed relationships.

Vanille is a little Parisian girl who has just arrived in Guadeloupe. She will be immersed in an exotic and mysterious adventure, meeting picturesque characters and magical flowers, all embellished with a touch of Creole. These holidays promise to be rich and full of surprises!

Lily, a Chinese girl brought up in strict Chinese tradition, meets Tom, a painter living with his four models in Provence, France. Although Tom is secretly condemned by an incurable disease, the painter passes his love of life and dreams to this young woman. Unexpected events awake Lily's senses and enable her to leave her "good girl" life to discover the real meaning of life.

In Guadeloupe, Chris divides his time between deals, one-night stands and motorcycle rodeos. Spotted by Odell, the boss of the neighboring neighborhood, Chris is entrusted with a risky delivery. Despite his best friend’s warning, he accepts the mission. But on the day of delivery, he discovers that a baby has been left at his door. Then begins for him, a hellish race which will lead him to a crucial choice…

Follows the defiance of two art institutions in the Caribbean: one closed but squatted by artists, the other fighting to stay open. Against the backdrop of political strife, Haitian and Guadeloupean artists grapple with the concept of freedom in their battle to preserve their spaces.

In Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), RED, a young highschool girl with a strong temper, is faced with predators on her way to see her grandma.

Returning to the island that her father left 50 years earlier, the filmmaker goes back in time to retrace the history of her name.

The Homeless Wanderer is the second part of Daniela Yohannes’ Atopias trilogy, which grapples with geographies of migration, generational memory, and trauma. Yohannes does double duty, playing a woman trekking the Caribbean’s harsh natural landscapes in search of a transformational portal.

On a full moon night, Fabrice and Simon, two men from the village of Basse-Terre, decide to rob a grocery store. They do not know that they are about to enter the sanctuary of Fofo, an eccentric old man well-known for his affinities with the occult powers.

There is a land nestled in the middle of the crystal-clear waters of the Caribbean Sea: Guadeloupe. From the summits of the island to the luxuriant forests, passing by rivers, swamps, beaches and mangroves, the diversity of landscapes and ecosystems offers a wide variety of spectacular panoramas. Even if it is very frequented by tourists and has many inhabited areas, the island of Guadeloupe is also the land of a discreet, almost invisible people: the animals. They knew how to find their place, near or far from humans. We know of their existence. We have sometimes seen them; we have often been close to them. But rarely really approached. From the summits of the island to the depths of the ocean that surrounds it, this 100% wildlife film takes us to the most remarkable animals of Guadeloupe.

Is it possible to promote a politician like a "washing powder"? Talented publicist, Jack Cellini is convinced that the Guadeloupean senator, candidate for the presidential elections, is the perfect way to prove it, by using the candidate's color as he's black. However in France, do we also can?...

Part of the Atopias trilogy. A meditative walk across terrains, where a protagonist traverses atopic spaces thriving only at a level of foundational life; gaseous stars, dense plants, glittering rocks and uncontrolled water. Its nonlinear narrative examines how the conscious absorbs and processes hostilities of society and environment into the unconscious.

To receive a fabulous inheritance, Pierre Mombin and his accomplice friend Bruce, imagine a very curious stratagem because he must marry an Ex. But which one?

The film is a poignant personal memory quest that begins at the Bay of Diamant, in Martinique, and carries us to 3 continents, to shine light on what it means to be black today in a globally interconnected world, as seen through the eyes of Martinican artist Laurent Valère and his transatlantic dialogs with the black diaspora.

Boissard, a district of the city of Abymes and one of the largest ghettos in France, is in full resorption of unhealthy habitat. Witnesses to this brutal transformation, Starsky and Steeve, inhabitants of the ghetto since always, are the young guardians of the living memory of the neighborhood. Beyond the change of scenery, what has really changed in the lives of the inhabitants of Boissard?

An ordinary gas station employee finds himself facing a series of unexpected events during his night shift, uncovering the mystery behind the disappearances haunting the town.

Naomie is my cousin, talking to her brings me back to my childhood in Port-au-Prince, and her family in the country whom she left when she turned seven. It’s only today that I discovered who she really is and, thanks to her, the sense and use of « mutual aid » even in my own family. When growing up with your parents seems of common sense, there is a small part of the world where it stands as a privilege

Five years after his daughter Julia is killed, Franck Cardonat, a dignitary from a Caribbean island, kills in cold blood the person who had plunged his child into the darkness of crack.

Shot during the cane workers' strikes in 1975, this first authentically West Indian film bluntly depicts Guadeloupe as it was, thirty years after departmentalization.

Welcome to the tropix! A place where the paradoxes of neo-colonial daily life play out against a backdrop of economic and health-related suffocation.

directed by Astrid Siwsanker.

Tommy, a former music producer, is going through a complicated period in his life because he has just lost his job and his girlfriend. On his way to a date, he is held up by a young delinquent. They don't know it yet, but this meeting will change both of their lives.

A roof, a floor, a bed: for Jahkin, this fishing hut may not be a choice, but it is a house. While waiting for life to offer him better, he adapts to it.

Mamie had her first daughter when she was 16. She raised her 10 children on her own, by sheer strength, as her hands are "neither cut nor bound" and without the help of any of their fathers. Today, she has 27 grandchildren, or 28, she doesn't really know.

Two young people are faced with a decisive life choice: to continue or not an accidental pregnancy. They disagree while universes overlap parallels

It was while searching the ground of the Darboussier factory that Michel found the parts of his motorbikes. They invade his life and his house, he patiently assembles them to give shape to his dreams.

A young Haitian living in Guadeloupe, Jean-Chrislet writes every day on his mobile phone. Behind closed doors, I suggest that he tell me his experience through the reading of one of his manuscripts. Between readings and conversations, speech is laid bare to be heard during a journey to the other and to oneself.

Thérèse cultivates a Creole garden in Guadeloupe. She resists against some invisible poisons. Her hands are confused with the soil. Her face with the light.