Collections/May 2026

You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema

Born from a period of intense political upheaval, these radical Caribbean films spotlight vital stories of workers’ movements, decolonial struggle, and liberation from economic exploitation and violent oppression. Including urgent, on-the-ground accounts of revolutionary movements ( Haiti: The Way to Freedom , Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us ), dynamic portraits of women on the frontlines of resistance ( Women of Suriname , Sweet Sugar Rage ), and a one-of-a-kind diasporic musical revue ( West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty ), they blend agitprop and grassroots pedagogy with living folk traditions to forge a collective counter-cinema built around the fight for freedom. Guest-curated by Jonathan Ali of Third Horizon Film Festival, who presented a version of this program entitled You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978–1985 at THFF in 2025.

7 films