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Sugar Cane Alley (1983)
Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in school. José studies hard and succeeds in an exam allowing him to attend school in the capital. With only a partial scholarship, the tuition is very costly. José and his grandmother move to Fort-de-France to make José's studies easier...
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Tales from the Atlantic Beyond (2025)
The film is a poignant personal memory quest that begins at the Bay of Diamant, in Martinique, and carries us to 3 continents, to shine light on what it means to be black today in a globally interconnected world, as seen through the eyes of Martinican artist Laurent Valère and his transatlantic dialogs with the black diaspora.
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La ultima rumba de papa Montero (1991)
La última rumba de Papá Montero is a 1992 Cuban film directed by Octavio Cortázar. The film focuses on a contemporary documentary production company that is attempting to create a non-fiction feature about Papa Montero, a 1930's rumbero who was murdered during Havana's carnival celebrations. The film uses flashback sequences to recreate Papa Montero's celebrated dance and his disastrous involvement in a fatal love triangle. The film features rumba-inspired dance sequences performed in the streets of Havana by El Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba.
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5.5
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Aliker (2009)
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6.3
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Mermaids (2024)
Daniel, a widowed father in northern Martinique, lives with his 8-year-old daughter, Soraya. A fisherman and restaurateur, he struggles to survive in a town plagued by economic and social crises.
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French Wedding, Caribbean Style (2002)
In Julius Amédée-Laou's biting dramedy, a supposedly joyful interracial wedding descends into chaos when long-buried prejudices and family secrets rise to the surface. Told through the cocky lens of the bride's younger brother, what begins as a lighthearted summer affair turns nightmarish as scandal threatens to destroy the unlikely couple's big day.
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5.2
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Nos Îles (2023)
In the postcard-perfect setting of Martinique, a group of friends get together to talk about their relationship with the island and with mainland France. Their conversations sketch the portrait of a youth from overseas.
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7.2
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Opal (2023)
In a magic kingdom, the young princess Opal is struggling to remain joyful, as her sadness has the magic power to destroy the entire world.
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7.5
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Dorlis (2021)
Nora, a Martiniquan teenager, moves with her mother and younger sister to her grandfather Henri's to take care of him after a recent stroke. This causes traumatic childhood memories to surface for Nora embodied in the fear of an attack by an evil spirit, the Dorlis.
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100
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Papa Césaire (2009)
Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé Césaire. In this film, she retraces the steps of Césaire’s travels across the globe — particularly back to his hometown in Martinique, where Maldoror interviews his relatives about his life — and her working relationship with Césaire, including fragments of her previous films about him, Un homme, une terre (1976) and Le masque des mots (1987).
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6.4
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L'exil du roi Behanzin (1996)
Evocation of the ruthless war which opposed from 1890 to 1894 the French colonial army to the young Ahydjere Behanzin, king and living god of Dahomey, who ended in his surrender and his exile.
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6.3
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Biguine (2004)
Martinique, late nineteenth century. Abandoning the plantation where they work, Hermansia and Tiquitaque, a couple of musicians, settle in Saint-Pierre, but quickly become disillusioned as their career takes off in a small town which is only interested in Western music. Thus begins a long drift during which the couple learns new sounds and new music from elsewhere.
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The Middle Passage (2000)
A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.
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Bright Spin (2012)
Patrick moved to France to become a renowned historian. After learning his mother is about to die, he returns to Martinique and embraces his roots.
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6.0
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Nanny: Filminute (2015)
"Nanny" tells the story of a young and fragile Caribbean girl, who wakes up at night in a dark forest where she makes the most frightening encounter ever..
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Maybe Another Time (2013)
Marc and Julia just found each other, yet they already have to say good bye...
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7.2
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Battledream Chronicle (2015)
In the future the Empire of Mortemonde has enslaved almost all nations on Earth. Each month everyone is forced to play the virtual reality computer game Battledream. Only those who reach a score of 1000 points are allowed to live one more month. And on top of that you can also really die in the game. Impenetrable firewalls make sure that nobody can cheat or break the codes. Syanna Meridian, a fearless young slave, decides to fight this inhuman system, together with her devoted friend Alytha Mercuri. There’s only one free nation left on the planet, Sablereve, but its leaders prefer to run rather than to fight. It’s up to Syanna to convince them to join her, but to achieve that she has to win one final game against the best players of Mortemonde, Isaac Ravengorn and Alexander Torquemada.
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Au-delà
On All Saints' Day, Auranne is called back from the dead by her husband to share one last evening. Despite his wife's cadaverous appearance, he is madly in love and does everything to make this night perfect. But as the hours fly by, Auranne's mind wanders into ethereal visions linked to her resurrection.
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TOL (2021)
Tol is the story of a robot worker working in a landfill that after a certain time has discharged, and will have to be recycled. In order to escape, he will have to thwart the foreman's supervision so that his son, whom he is hiding, will have a better future.
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Memory's Gaze (2003)
The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general Toussaint Louverture was held prisoner until his death in 1803. She then talks to Aimé Césaire at Le Diamant in Martinique, in front of Laurent Valère's "Cap 110" memorial. The documentary also includes short interviews with Roland Suvélor and Madeleine de Grandmaison, and the reading of texts performed by Greg Germain.
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The Messenger (1975)
Her first picture, La Messagère (The Messenger, 1975), made by Palcy before she left for Paris, allowed people from Martinique to see themselves for the first time on television as complex characters.
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Zanmi (2019)
A New Year’s Eve party in Martinique with friends and champagne leads to an innocent game with unexpected consequences.


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