THCFF 17: Homelands

Showings

O Cinema Wynwood Sat, Sep 30, 2017 11:00 AM

Description

FLORIDA PREMIERE!
Homelands is the culmination of a year-long project in which four acclaimed British urban musicians returned to their respective homelands to connect with their cultural roots and create and produce new music. Mercury Music Prize-nominated Terri Walker travelled to Jamaica, double-Mobo winner Shakka visited Dominica, while grime artists Diztortion and Saskilla headed to Suriname and Senegal, respectively.

 

Preceded by: Scars of Our Mother’s Dreams
Scars Of Our Mothers' Dreams is a film that offers a unique, intimate glimpse into the complexities of parental migration through the lenses of children left behind. Years after her own personal struggle to overcome the feeling of childhood abandonment, filmmaker Meschida Philip returned to Grenada in search of others with similar childhood experiences, to find out how their lives were impacted after their parents? ?migrated.