Jamaica Movies

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

A portrait of a group of young inmates at the General Penitentiary in Kingston, Jamaica, who participate in a rehabilitation program through music....

A young man in Jamaica battles with taking matters into his own hands when seeking justice for the murder of his mother.

A short documentary film about a frail non binary child, already traumatized by a Christian mother and Rastafarian father, who is abducted and raped....

Anansi the Spider must outsmart the biggest, most dangerous animals in the jungle… Or be eaten himself!

Trench Town, Jamaica, is the most famous ghetto in the World. Immortalised by Bob Marley it is now one of the most dangerous places on the planet....

Experimental short by Tetsuo Furudate.

A family convenes exactly 500 years after Charles V grants permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod ‘to import 4000 Africans into New Spain’....

Through contemporary Jamaica, everyday life, celebration and respite converge in a meditation on revolutionary time, climate crisis and cinema.

As Jamaica's beaches are increasingly captured by private and tourist interests, a movement fights to reclaim access to the island's coastline,...

A fictional short film that uses the horror genre to explore the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession, and the power of return/retrieval.

Written and directed by Nile Saulter and based on a concept by Shamar Watt, Summon follows Suno, a young dancer torn between his Jamaican roots and...

Based on Jamaican folklore and the story of Rolling Calf - a supernatural being that is part calf and part man, with eyes of fire, that drags a...

Soon Come Back is a poetic documentary about migration’s effect on Nande's relationships to “home” in Jamaica and the US, and her...

Dexter’s life falls apart after a false theft accusation costs him his job. Desperate, he starts a taxi business, unknowingly picking up...

Your friends and enemies have one thing in common, you! Mark leaves his girlfriend to be with Natasha, the girl he truly loves, but her brother...

Jamaica For Sale is a powerful documentary about the economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism and unsustainable development in Jamaica....

Experimental short by Takashi Nakajima.