WICFF 2026: Regenerations

WINDRUSH 2026 PRESENTS

NINE FILMS. ONE NIGHT. STORIES THAT STAY WITH YOU.

A celebration of Caribbean and diaspora voices, identities and stories.

HALLOWEEN NIGHT | SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2026

THE BIG BLACK BOX • TRINIDAD

Featuring:

Ugly Afro Hair • Breath of Another • The Border Czar • Ackee and Saltfish • My Dad, Guyana and Me • The Brittle Little Ones • Beg Yuh a Call • Got to Be Free - A Village Drums of Freedom Story

What makes somewhere feel like home? How much of our identity comes from the cultures we inherit, and how much do we choose? And who gets to decide which people belong?

THE BORDER CZAR

Directed by Raymond T. Williams

Costa Rica, 2025 · 11 min 55 sec

After delivering a speech on immigration, Rep. Jim Coolidge returns home and goes to sleep,

only to wake up on the other side of the border. Disoriented and unable to wake, he is forced forward through an unfamiliar landscape, where the distance between what he believes andwhat he faces begins to close.

BREATH OF ANOTHER

Directed by Sheridan Seraphin

United Kingdom, 2024 · 13 min 35 sec

A psychedelic short about a young man moving through the routines of a toxic workplace, worn down by low self-esteem, until a new colleague becomes the catalyst for something different. Seraphin is a North London filmmaker who favours striking visual and aural technique over dialogue; the film stars Georgia-Mae Myers and Elliot Samuels. It widens the programme's idea of belonging beyond race or nationality — sometimes belonging is a question of whether you feel you deserve to occupy the room you are already standing in.

SAUSAGE ROLLS & JOLLOF RICE

Directed by Benjamin Turner

United Kingdom, 2025 · 18 min 33 sec

On a chaotic London film set, a rising Black actor, a frustrated sound technician and an ambitious young director find professional tensions turning personal. At the centre of it is something apparently trivial: a catering table holding sausage rolls and jollof rice. The food becomes a stand-in for much larger arguments about race, class, authenticity and representation, in a darkly comic meta-film where the boundary between the production being shot and the reality behind the camera starts to dissolve. Its question is an uncomfortable one for the creative industries: when organisations celebrate diversity, who actually controls the story?

MY DAD, GUYANA AND ME

Directed by Noella Letitia Mingo

United Kingdom / Guyana, 2025 · 9 min 15 sec

After losing her father, the filmmaker sets out to understand the Guyanese heritage that formed so much of who he was, and therefore part of who she is. What begins as curiosity becomes something more emotional — a poetic journey between fragmented memory and present-day discovery, built from family photographs, archival material and contemporary images of Guyana. Can a place you did not grow up in still belong to you? And when the person who carried that connection dies, what happens to the history they were holding?

ACKEE AND SALTFISH

Directed by Jasmin Nunes

United Kingdom, 2025 · 15 min 58 sec

For Hilda, a Jamaican mother living in London with her sons, preserving Caribbean identity begins at the dining table. She prepares a traditional meal, hoping to reconnect them to a culture she fears is slipping away as they settle into English life. The smell, the preparation and the meaning of the dish become a language one generation uses to speak to the next. The film captures a tension familiar to migrant families everywhere: parents cross borders so their children can have what they could not, and those same opportunities carry the next generation further from the place they came from. The film had its world premiere at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.

UGLY. AFRO HAIR

Directed by Chinwe Kalu Uma

United Kingdom, 2025 · 25 min 43 sec

Set in a near-future where altering natural Black hair has been made illegal, the film follows a woman required to attend a government-mandated recovery programme called Natural Hair Anonymous. The premise inverts a long history: Black women have faced enormous pressure to alter Afro-textured hair to meet Eurocentric standards. Rather than simply imagining a future that celebrates natural hair, the film asks what happens when one compulsory standard is swapped for another. The question underneath the satire is not whether Black women should wear their hair naturally. It is who has the authority to decide.

Beg Yuh A Call

Mikey T Campbell, Jamaica/USA, 2025 · 8m 6s

Omar is adjusting to life overseas. A call from back home changes everything.

The Brittle Little Ones

Jade ANDRIVON, Laura CUVILLIER, Clémentine DAMICO, Régis Raphaël MARTON, Samuel ROUSSAS, France, 2025 · 18m 1s

Elisa is a somewhat eccentric middle school student who is a victim of bullying. She discovers that her only friend, Jessie, plans to run away with an adult. Determined to protect her, Elisa embarks on a desperate mission that reveals a world she never knew existed. This journey confronts her with a dilemma that will change her forever.

Got To Be Free - A Village Drums of Freedom Story

Jasmine K. Stein, Martina Lanfranchi, Germany / Trinidad, 2025 · 1hr 12m 50s

Fifty years after taking the rhythms of Trinidad and Tobago to the world, the founders of Village Drums of Freedom return to the land where it all began, reflecting on a journey of culture, spirituality, political empowerment, and resistance.