Bacchanal Time
A wildly halarious comedy about an islandwide stick-fight competition on Carnival Sunday, and two fighters who have to travel to great distances through treacherous, often riduculous circumstances to compete. Admission: Free
backBlack Orpheus
Against the backdrop of the Rio de Janeiro Carnival, this impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice vacillates between fantasy and stark reality; An epic tale on love, vengence and passion accompanied by breathtaking cinematography and a seminal bossa nova soundtrack. Winner of the 1959 Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and the 1960 Academy Award for the best foreign-language film. Admission: Free
backKing Carnival
King Carnival is acclaimed as one of the best documentaries ever made about the history of Trinidad & Tobago Carnival- with its indepth look at the pre-Lenten festival - from the cultural cornucopia which provided a platform for civil unrest and protest, to the twentieth century celebration of all things Caribbean. Admission: Free
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