Kumina Queen + Brave

Fri, Feb 9, 2024
Join us for a conversation between director Nyasha Laing and cultural strategist and producer Desirée Gordon following the screening.

Kumina Queen (2022)
Dir. Nyasha Laing, 57min
Jamaica/US

Imogene “Queenie” Kennedy was a priestess in post-colonial Jamaica who catapulted her African spiritual practice into renown. But after centuries of erasure, what remains of the dance between the living and the dead? In the wake of the loss of her mother, documentary filmmaker Nyasha Laing travels into the heart of Jamaican countryside to research the ancestral ritual of Kumina. Her journey uncovers a mysterious world that reveals a divergent pathway to freedom, healing, and transformation—for those who choose it.


Brave (2021)
Dir. Wilmarc Val, 25min
New York premiere
In Haitian creole with English subtitles

Upon the death of a Haitian vodou priestess, or Mambo, it is up to the children to celebrate the deity she served. Hoping to put an end to the misfortunes that have befallen her family, Cébé returns to Haiti to finally perform a ceremony she should have done 24 years earlier, after her priestess mother’s death.

UPCOMING Screenings

      + Join us for a conversation between director Nyasha Laing following the screening.

      RUNNING TIME

      82min

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      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

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