For over a decade, the Curaçao International Film Festival has brought international cinema to Curaçao and local stories and productions to the world. Every April, thousands of visitors, filmmakers, and creatives gather for five unforgettable days of film, culture, and connection. CIFF isn’t just a festival. We inspire new talent, engage youth, reward talent and build pride in our island’s creative future.

KANKANTRI by Gabri Christa is included as part of the Caribbean Focus program in the Music & Dance section.

Zapraszamy na pierwszą w tym roku odsłonę Kina Tańca Online. Tym razem przygotowaliśmy program zatytułowany „Pamięć miejsca".

We invite you to the first edition this year of Dance Cinema Online. This time we have prepared a program titled "Memory of Place."

Homework: Architectures of Belonging

The founding of the original Weeksville community teaches us that the intimate act of building a home was connected to the public act of claiming a space in the wider society. Black men owning property valued at $250 or more secured the right to vote. But property alone does not make a home.

“Homework” borrows its title from the assertions of scholar Sarah Ahmed, who tells us, “we have much to work out from not being at home in a world.” This labor, “work on and in our homes” seeks the transformation Audre Lorde demanded, requiring new tools to overturn the structures sheltering inequality and domination.

Dwelling in the subjectivity that enacts such transformation, the artists exhibited in Homework, inhabit that first native land, the domestic sphere, and the thresholds between inner and outer worlds. Displacement and yearning appear in these works, alongside gestures and structures that lay claim to space, determined to rebuild.

Presenting an international, multigenerational group, “Homework” is an invitation to the dream houses in which we can reimagine where we live, and how.

Curated by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Weeksville’s inaugural Curator in Residence, on view through April 3, 2026.

Featured Artists:

Menna Agha
Auclair
Beverly Buchanan
sonia louise davis
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs & Gabri Christa
Lonnie Holley
Ajamu Kojo
Zenobia Lee
Zyanya

See Gabri Christa’s The Break-Up, a powerful film installation, at Movement Lab, Barnard College during the month of October 2025.

Gabri Christa’s KANKANTRI was screened at Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival (TTFF) in September 2025.

Arthshila Ahmedabad presents Gabri's film KANKANTRI on Friday, January 31st at 5:30 pm and Saturday - Sunday, February 1st and 2nd at 11:30 am.

Dance Camera West 2025 presents Gabri's new film KANKANTRI as part of Dance as a Cultural Language on Friday, January 31st at 7:00pm.

Gabri Christa’s experimental documentary Sheila will be screened in Canada as part of Broad View International Film Festival’s program of Dance Shorts on Friday, November 8th at 9:00pm.

Fifth Wall Fest presents Gabri's new film KANKANTRI at an in-person screening of FIFTH WALL Dance Film Competition winner and shortlist on October 19 from 12:00-13:00 in New Manila, QC in the Philippines.

KANKANTRI is the winner of the 𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋 Competition Grand Jury Prize!

The Conch Shell International Film Festival 2024, a Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora film festival, will feature Gabri Christa’s KANKANTRI as part of their 2024 Official Selection. There will be two screenings, on Friday, October 11th at 5:00 PM and on Sunday, October 13th at 1:30 PM both at Regal UA Midway Cinema. The film will also be available online for the duration of the festival.

KANKANTRI is also nominated for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM!

Moving Body-Moving Image MOVES with the times, ever evolving. This year we are not producing a festival, but hosting the Digital Black Dance Ecologies Laboratory, an initiative from Dr. Tia -Monique Uzor. The invitation only Lab will take place from October 11-13, 2024 at the Barnard College Movement Lab. 

In addition to the Laboratory, Moving Body-Moving Image will curate a two week long public installation at the Movement Lab with works of some of the participating DBDE Laboratory artists / researchers from October 7 - 10 and October 14 - 18.

On Friday October 11 at 6pm,  there will be an additional public screening of specially selected films around the black body and environmental justice and the black / brown body relating to ancestry and history.

Gabri Christa’s new film KANKANTRI has been accepted as part of the Official Jury Selection at kNOwBOX Film Festival and will be presented both online and internationally with screenings in Dallas, Texas; Seoul, South Korea; and Oaxaca, Mexico.

The Department of Dance, Drama and Film at Kenyon College welcomes guest artist Gabri Christa for a series of events Sept. 22 - 23. On Sunday September 22nd, Gabri will be leading a screendance seminar followed by a screening of her experimental documentary short Sheila and artist discussion. On Monday September 23rd, Gabri will teach a film and motion workshop.

Kankantri has been selected to be part of the Manifest Dance-Film Festival in Pondicherry, India, South Asia’s only international dance-film festival. The festival calls Gabri’s film: “A Magic Surealism Docu Dance Film”

Gabri Christa will show her films Kankantri and Sheila and will teach a screendance workshop at the University of The West Indies during the NEW WAVES! INSTITUTE, a gathering of dance artists, scholars, teachers, students, and leaders in the field of dance who embody the depth and spirit of contemporary dance and performance practice in the Caribbean and its Diasporas. In an organizing principle of ‘Emancipation’, New Waves! participants connect in essential ways that alters and brings out light in one another. Founded and Directed by Makeda Thomas.