Movies & TV Shows from Martinique

In 1976 a group of people in the desert for a photo shoot, stumble upon an abandoned town called Savage. But they are not alone. A family of masked psychopaths have claimed Savage as their own and are hell bent on living up to its name.

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe (1963), Sarah Maldoror portrays her friend as a politician, a poet, and a founder of the Négritude movement.

The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general Toussaint Louverture was held prisoner until his death in 1803. She then talks to Aimé Césaire at Le Diamant in Martinique, in front of Laurent Valère's "Cap 110" memorial. The documentary also includes short interviews with Roland Suvélor and Madeleine de Grandmaison, and the reading of texts performed by Greg Germain.

Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé Césaire. In this film, she retraces the steps of Césaire’s travels across the globe — particularly back to his hometown in Martinique, where Maldoror interviews his relatives about his life — and her working relationship with Césaire, including fragments of her previous films about him, Un homme, une terre (1976) and Le masque des mots (1987).

A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.

Evocation of the ruthless war which opposed from 1890 to 1894 the French colonial army to the young Ahydjere Behanzin, king and living god of Dahomey, who ended in his surrender and his exile.

In Julius Amédée-Laou's biting dramedy, a supposedly joyful interracial wedding descends into chaos when long-buried prejudices and family secrets rise to the surface. Told through the cocky lens of the bride's younger brother, what begins as a lighthearted summer affair turns nightmarish as scandal threatens to destroy the unlikely couple's big day.

In the postcard-perfect setting of Martinique, a group of friends get together to talk about their relationship with the island and with mainland France. Their conversations sketch the portrait of a youth from overseas.

In a magic kingdom, the young princess Opal is struggling to remain joyful, as her sadness has the magic power to destroy the entire world.

Since August 2024, in Martinique, a popular protest movement against the high cost of living has been reemerging under the leadership of the RPPRAC (Rassemblement Pour La Protection Des Peuples Et Des Ressources Afro-Caribéens – Gathering for the Protection of Afro-Caribbean Peoples and Resources). On the island, food prices are on average 54% higher than in mainland France.* Through various cultural figures, the people of Martinique are expressing their anger and seeking concrete solutions. *Source: Kiprix, Price comparison between supermarkets in the French overseas territories and mainland France.

On All Saints' Day, Auranne is called back from the dead by her husband to share one last evening. Despite his wife's cadaverous appearance, he is madly in love and does everything to make this night perfect. But as the hours fly by, Auranne's mind wanders into ethereal visions linked to her resurrection.

Following an inappropriate remark towards a woman, a young man finds himself plunged into a parallel world where he will endure a series of remarks and micro-attacks usually reserved for women.

Daniel, a widowed father in northern Martinique, lives with his 8-year-old daughter, Soraya. A fisherman and restaurateur, he struggles to survive in a town plagued by economic and social crises.

The moon is tired of living with the sun. She leaves for the Caribbean Sea. She discovers a wonderful new world. The sun is bored alone. He sends his soldiers to capture the moon.

Conversations about home, danger and identity on the slopes of a reawakening volcano.

Tol is the story of a robot worker working in a landfill that after a certain time has discharged, and will have to be recycled. In order to escape, he will have to thwart the foreman's supervision so that his son, whom he is hiding, will have a better future.

The film is a poignant personal memory quest that begins at the Bay of Diamant, in Martinique, and carries us to 3 continents, to shine light on what it means to be black today in a globally interconnected world, as seen through the eyes of Martinican artist Laurent Valère and his transatlantic dialogs with the black diaspora.