Riverfilms

Kavery Kaul’s engaging documentary traces the history of calypso and soca music from their birth in the African-East Indian traditions of Trinidad and Tobago through its worldwide diaspora, including its popularization in the 1950s by Harry Belafonte and the new independent distribution networks that arose to serve the expatriate community in the 1980s.

A self-conscious young man keeps passing out while meeting his girlfriend's crass and abrasive family, blurring the line between nightmares and reality.