12 Matches Found
A young woman desperately tries to conceal her identity and lives a normal life in her community, but is compelled by a curse that brings her into conflict with her destiny. She is hunted down by an old enemy, who tracks her to the village of Agricola, for the second and final confrontation.
Brown Sugar Too Bitter For Me is a poignant tale of love, devotion and social injustice on a sugar plantation in Guyana.
An immersive and intimate documentary filmed entirely by The Peoples Temple in Jonestown.
The Americanized Tony Dass finds himself in the doldrums. His wife has put him out of his marital home and he is being estranged from his son. While trying to come to grips with this new reality, he receives an intriguing call from an antique dealer in Guyana that prompts his return. After an absence of over twenty years, Tony undertakes this journey home to see if something in his past is responsible for the misery he faces in America. What Tony discovers about himself not only shocks him but reveals the human spirit at its finest.
Documentary about repressive violence in colonial Guyana.
"If Wishes Were Horses" is a musical comedy featuring Guyana’s premier comedian Habeeb Khan as a farmer who prefers show business, but joins the National “Feed-Yourself" campaign. With original songs and theme music, and the dramatic and comedic skills of Khan, Mignon Lowe, Barney Johnson, Don Me Master, Lennox Greaves and director Vivian John Lee himself.
A coming-of-age film about two queer Guyanese boys, who are navigating their feelings in a homophobic society.
In the Sky's Wild Noise is based around an interview with Walter Rodney, the renowned Guyanese historian, author and political activist, who was assassinated in 1980. The interview-which was filmed in 1976, when the Victor Jara Collective were shooting their first documentary, The Terror and The Time-is intercut with archival footage, and explores the political, social, and economic conditions of the working class in Guyana in the 1970s.
Based on a true story, "Sounds of Sugarcane" tells the tale of two boys, an African and an Indian, who are growing up on a sugar plantation in Guyana, as a slave and indentured labourer respectively, trying to re-gain their freedom.
A film about the ongoing battle to build and maintain the sea defences of Guyana. It gives a historical perspective as the earlier Dutch and English planters and Governors had to battle the sea and the flood from rainfall as well. The rising sea levels, if they occur, will make the sea defences even more difficult to control flooding during high tides.
Traces Iyabo Kwayana's 100-year-old father’s involvement in Afro-Asian working-class struggles in Guyana, South America.
Documentary filmed in 1911, during an extensive journey that the German ethnologist and explorer Theodor Koch-Grünberg made through the northern region of Brazil, on the border with Venezuela and the future Guyana, which records everyday aspects in the life of the Taulipang, better known as Pemones, such as the process of making cassava or manioc into flour.