Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu A Weti), a film by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, and Tolin Alexander, in collaboration with the Maroons from Suriname, has been selected by film collective Third Horizon to stream on Criterion Channel platform.
Over the last decade, Third Horizon has established itself as a champion of exceptional Caribbean cinema rooted in the region’s locus as a global crossroads of both history and geography, a pivot around which the old world became the new, and a harbinger of an intersectional future ravaged by colonialism and climate change. Featuring a selection of films drawn from Third Horizon’s flagship initiative, the Miami-based Third Horizon Film Festival, from its first edition in 2016 to its most recent in 2022, this program brings together fiction, documentary, and hybrid works from across the region and its diasporas. Formally and politically radical, these films seek to transcend stereotypical, reductive, and potentially harmful ways of seeing the Caribbean while understanding that representation is a means to an end and not merely an end in itself. In refusing to make a spectacle of their historically marginalized subjects while embracing the layered complexity of Caribbean identity, they become vital and impactful works of art.
FEATURES: Cocote (2017), Stones Have Laws (2019), Right Near the Beach (2020), Paroles de nègres (2021)
SHORTS: Field Notes (2014), Douvan jou ka leve (2017), The Cemetery Lightens (2018), Dadli (2018), Nou voix (2018), My Mother Resents Me (2019), Aquí (2020), Here Is the Imagination of the Black Radical (2020), The White Death of the Black Wizard (2020)
Available in Canada and the USA, 1 Sept. 2023 – 1 March 2024.
