Film series: The Caribbean: Social Issues, Yesterday and Today

This film series has been created to celebrate the new minor in Caribbean Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell. It invites viewers to reflect on the Caribbean as a space of media creation, as well as to consider social issues of global concern from the perspective of the Caribbean. 

With films from Colombia, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, this series aims to consider different parts of the Caribbean, allowing for a reflection on how the region is affected by geopolitics at a global scale, national politics, and by social issues including race, gender, sexual orientation and class. It also insists on and highlights the possibility and the power in narrating and creating from the margins, emphasizing the Caribbean not only as a subject matter but also and especially as agent and creator of languages, worlds, and ways of resistance. 

Free admission! Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS).

The series is curated by Daniella Prieto, PhD student of Spanish in the department of Romance Studies with a graduate minor in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and 2026-25 LACS Graduate Fellow.

Supported by a grant from the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program of the Department of Education.