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  ScreenShare: CaribbeanTales International Film Festival x Caribbean Film Festival
 

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purgatory
Nikki Shaffeeullah Nikki Shaffeeullah
Zena is a confident queer woman whose life is often complicated by an anxiety-fueled sensitivity to the uncanny. When she returns to her family’s mosque with her partner to attend the funeral of a..
purgatory
purgatory
20 min  /  English  /  2025
Canada

 
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unalive
Unalive  Kwanza Nicole Gooden 
Jul-2025


24'  English United States


Xoe is a rising Hollywood actress whose long-awaited breakthrough arrives after years of rejection and relentless ambition. But behind the success lies crushing isolation, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. When her Jamaican-American family visits from Washington, D.C., Xoe hides her despair behind charm and performance, masking what is secretly meant to be a [...]

Xoe is a rising Hollywood actress whose long-awaited breakthrough arrives after years of rejection and relentless ambition. But behind the success lies crushing isolation, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. When her Jamaican-American family visits from Washington, D.C., Xoe hides her despair behind charm and performance, masking what is secretly meant to be a final goodbye. Days after they leave, Xoe prepares to end her life, only to receive an urgent call from her younger brother Xavier, who is facing his own crisis. Forced to confront their shared pain, the siblings struggle to save one another in a deeply emotional story about family, depression, connection, and survival.


Category:  Fiction 



 
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Director


Kwanza Nicole Gooden

United States | 
Biofilmography

Kwanza Nicole Gooden is a Caribbean-American writer, director, producer, and editor based in Los Angeles whose work spans narrative and documentary storytelling across major platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime, BET Networks, and BuzzFeed. She is known for creating socially conscious films that explore identity, culture, and lived experience. Her acclaimed docuseries The Black Beauty Effect (Comcast NBCUniversal), which she directed, produced, and edited, was acquired by Netflix. Her award-winning short Token earned Best Director at the Oscar-qualifying Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival. Her recent short unalive. premiered at the Pan African Film Festival, continuing her focus on bold, culturally resonant storytelling.




 


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6
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124
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20 September
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18 October
22:59 GMT-04:00


  
 
 
 
 
unalive
Kwanza Nicole Gooden
Xoe is a rising Hollywood actress whose long-awaited breakthrough arrives after years of rejection and relentless ambition. But behind the success lies crushing isolation, anxiety, and emotional..
unalive
unalive
24 min  /  English  /  2025
United States
  
 
 
 
 
purgatory
Nikki Shaffeeullah Nikki Shaffeeullah
Zena is a confident queer woman whose life is often complicated by an anxiety-fueled sensitivity to the uncanny. When she returns to her family’s mosque with her partner to attend the funeral of a..
purgatory
purgatory
20 min  /  English  /  2025
Canada
  
 
 
 
 
church hat
Miceal O'donnell
Based on the children’s book by Deb Williams, Church Hat follows Quentin, a curious young Jamaican boy whose fascination with his mother’s treasured church hats sparks a world of imagination...
church hat
church hat
7 min  /  English  /  2026
United States
  
 
 
 
 
swim sistas
Catherine Joy White
"Swim Sistas is a poetic and visually rich love letter to water, sisterhood, and the resilience of Black women across generations.

Narrated by Academy Award® nominee Naomie Harris as Mami Wata,..
swim sistas
swim sistas
11 min  /  English  /  2025
United Kingdom
  
 
 
 
 
paid in blue
Jared Seemungal
Paid in Blue is a supernatural horror rooted in Trinidad’s Blue Devil folklore. At a Carnival fête, the arrogant Keston delights in humiliating others before dismissing a group of Blue Devils..
paid in blue
paid in blue
6 min  /  English  /  2026
Trinidad and Tobago
  
 
 
 
 
uma memòria emplumada, a feathered memory
Ida Does
"A Feathered Memory (Uma Memória Emplumada)*, directed by Ida Does, follows Indigenous artist Daiara Tukano as she creates a monumental mural at the Mauritshuis. As the artwork unfolds, the film..
uma memòria emplumada, a feathered memory
uma memòria emplumada, a feathered memory
56 min  /  English  /  2025
Brazil

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