Possible Landscapes
Screening as part of Crossroads, a new series bringing bold, contemporary Caribbean films to cinemas across South East England. Curated from standout titles at the Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival.
This screening is followed by a talk-back session with film producers Natalie Melas and Tao DuFour and chaired by Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival community facilitator Tola Dabiri
Possible Landscapes is a poignant exploration of intergenerational experiences of Caribbean environments, filmed across two seasons in Trinidad and Tobago. Across sugarcane fields, steep hillsides, on fishing boats and through dying coral reefs, the film presents intimate portraits of people in their daily lives and examines the impacts of colonial legacies, post-independence aspirations, and the evolving forces of extractivism. A collaboration between filmmaker Kannan Arunasalam and professors Tao DuFour (Architecture) and Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature), it emerges from the research project Possible Landscapes: Documenting Environmental Experience in Trinidad and Tobago. Combining documentary and academic enquiry, it foregrounds lived experience of landscape and environment.
Crossroads is a new annual screening series bringing contemporary Caribbean film to independent venues across South East England. Drawing on standout selections from recent editions of Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, the series introduces audiences to bold, formally inventive, and politically resonant cinema emerging from one of the most underrepresented regions in global film culture. Conceived as both cultural exchange and long-term audience-development strategy, Crossroads builds sustained relationships between venues and communities – broadening reach, deepening engagement, and laying the groundwork for Caribbean cinema to become a recurring and visible presence within the UK’s exhibition landscape.
The Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival (TTFF) is the world’s leading Caribbean-focused film festival, championing films made by Caribbean filmmakers and from across the diaspora. For two decades, TTFF has created vital platforms for stories emerging from one of the most underrepresented regions in global cinema – celebrating the richness, complexity, and evolving identities of the Caribbean.
The first edition of Crossroads, draws directly from the 2025 edition of TTFF, presenting a curated selection of standout titles to audiences across South East England. Selected within a Caribbean context and now shared within a UK one, these films extend a curatorial vision grounded in authorship, care, and lived experience.
This project is supported by the BFI Film Audience Network.