A Place Called Home?: Displacement and storytelling from the margins

Centering voices of the displaced, the THFF24 films Calls from Moscow, L’Homme Vertige: Tales of a City, and Fields Fallen from Distant Songs pose an unmistakable call for resistance: from residents refusing relocation amidst the destruction of their neighborhood in Guadeloupe; to Cuban migrant workers in exile holding onto home and creating a space for play amidst hostility; to the depiction of family histories entangled in empire as Japanese immigrant laborers on sugar plantations in Hawai’i, and a longing for rematriation.

The directors of these films—Luis Alejandro Yero, Malaury Eloi Paisley, and Maya Jeffereis, respectively— will be in conversation with Third Horizon Festival Managing Director and Haitian-American filmmaker, Monica Sorelle, whose work explores alienation, displacement, and the preservation of cultural traditions in Miami and the Caribbean. The filmmakers will discuss their films, contexts of displacement, and form as a means of refusal.

This panel is presented alongside our community partner, The Miami Workers Center, a local organization building power with working-class tenants, workers, women, and families in Miami-Dade County.