Third Horizon Film Festival and Pérez Art Museum Miami Present: A Season of Caribbean Cinema | Part 1

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Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Third Horizon Film Festival (THFF) kick off a series of three screening events, each comprising of a feature-length film and a short from the Caribbean and its diaspora, followed by a conversation with select film directors. On April 27, the series begins with films It Runs in the Family and Dadli followed by a talk back with the feature filmmaker, Victoria Linares Villegas.

In addition to the in-person screenings, THFF film selections will be available for viewing online through PAMM TV, a new streaming service created by PAMM. Each short film will debut online the day of each event (April 27, August 31, and October 26).


April 27 Program

In-person Screening

Feature Film
It Runs in the Family (Victoria Linares Villegas / 2022 / Dominican Republic / 84’)
Victoria Linares is a filmmaker from the Dominican Republic. Her late uncle, Oscar Torres, was also a filmmaker, a pioneering artist who became virtually forgotten. A revelation concerning Oscar sends Victoria down a path of (self-)discovery, through reconstructions of Oscar’s intimate memories of living in the Caribbean in the 1950s and early 1960s, first under the Trujillo dictatorship in the DR, then in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. In an attempt to honor Oscar’s memory, Victoria leads enactments of his unproduced screenplays with the family who erased him.

From the Dominican Republic, Victoria Linares studied film production at the New School in New York City. She is the director of several short fiction and documentary films. It Runs in the Family is her first feature film. Her latest feature, Ramona, premiered in 2023.

Shorts Program
Dadli (Shabier Kirchner / 2018 / Antigua / 14’)
In this impressionistic documentary portrait, Tiquan, a 13-year-old Antiguan, recounts bits of his daily life in his small village and community. Shabier Kirchner, born and raised in Antigua and Barbuda, travels the world as a cinematographer and was selected as one of the 10 Cinematographers to Watch by Variety (2018). Dadli is Shabier’s first work as a director. This short will also be available on PAMM TV.

PAMM TV Debut

If I Could Name You Myself (I Would Hold You Forever) (Hope Strickland / 2021 / UK / 8’)
Cotton, a crop for which black women were forced into labor, offered a form of herbal resistance: cotton root bark could be used as birth control. Herbal knowledge carefully gathered and held was used among the women to defy a lineage of servitude. If I Could Name You Myself (I Would Hold You Forever) is in memoriam of this legacy.
Hope Strickland is an artist-filmmaker and visual anthropologist from Manchester, United Kingdom. Her current work is concerned with postcolonial ecologies, queer, diasporic assemblages, and the bonds between resource extraction and racial violence.

Pacaman (Dalissa Montes de Oca / 2021 / Dominican Republic / 22’)
On the busy Avenida Duarte in Santo Domingo, vendors stand beside mountains of clothes and compete for passing customers. But the hypnotic rhythms of their daily grind contrast with the life of, and their lives in, the city at night.

Dalissa Montes de Oca is a filmmaker and photographer from the Dominican Republic. In addition to Pacaman, she is the director of the short ethnographic fiction Yanelly (2020) and the experimental short White Light: Reminiscences of a Place I Never Went (2020).

Pattaki (Everlane Moraes / Cuba / 2018 / 21’)
In the dense night, when the moon lifts the tide, beings trapped in the daily life of water scarcity are hypnotized by the powers of Yemaya, the goddess of the sea.

Everlane Moraes is a Brazilian filmmaker. She graduated from the International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV) in Cuba, specializing in documentary.

Song for the New World (Miryam Charles / Quebec / 2021 / 9’)
Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall. Lulled by soft Creole tunes, Song for the New World is a waking dream calling for contemplation and the nostalgia of exile.

Of Haitian descent, Miryam Charles is a director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal, Canada. Her work explores themes related to exile and the legacies of colonization. In 2022 she premiered her first feature film, Cette Maison.

The Whisper of the Leaves (Amir Aether Valen / 2021 / Cuba / 16’)
The Whisper of the Leaves is a contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of time, movement of the human spirit, and passage to new forms of life, through the eyes, ears, and bodies of three elderly land workers living in a small community in the outskirts of Bauta, Cuba.

From Trinidad and Tobago, Amir Aether Valen is a graduate of Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, where he specialized in documentary film direction. In his time there, he made over 15 short films, some of which have competed both locally and internationally at film festivals.