Join us for the fourth and final episode of our Virtual Course and Film Festival: The Rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast! We will discuss THE SOUTH CARIBBEAN REGION. Please join us to learn about the Creole and Garífuna Afro-descendant Peoples around Bluefields, Orinoco, and surrounding communities.
---
Films of the week:
Lubaraun
This film introduces us to the Garífuna People of Orinoco, Nicaragua (a community our delegation will visit). The protagonists in the story travel to Honduras to visit their Garífuna relatives living there.
Lubaraun is ethnographic film with road movie elements shot in the Caribbean of Nicaragua and Honduras. The moving return of an elder from the Garifuna community of Orinoco, in Nicaragua, to the land of his ancestors in Honduras reveals the worldview and heritage of the Garifuna people in their particular way of life, humanistic and protective of the environment, struggling to maintain their identity. the film shows a journey to their roots, an encounter with their ancestors, a story of a family in resistance against colonialism; endearing characters united by the same sea.
Watch: [ Ссылка ]
The Black Creoles
This documentary centers the Creole people from Nicaragua and Costa Rica who have lived in resistance to colonialism. Through multiple testimonies, we learn about how Black people came to the Caribbean and how Creole culture was formed in the region. This film introduces us to the history and culture of the Creole community on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast.
Watch: [ Ссылка ]
—
Co-sponsored by: Alliance for Global Justice - Nicaragua Network, Casa Benjamin Linder, Center for Development in Central America
![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bjkPE7xTmyg/maxresdefault.jpg)