Cornwallis Cloth
Tony T., Rebecca Goldstone, UK, 2025, 23', Barbadian (English) dialect with English subs. © Sweet Patootee Arts

Cornwallis Cloth reimagines overlooked Caribbean experiences in the Second World War through a vivid piece inspired by oral testimony and archival fragments. Set in a moonlit Barbados garden in 1942, the piece blends sound, performance, calypso, and satire to illuminate the 1942 U‑boat attack on the SS Cornwallis and wider Black Caribbean lives, exploring loyalty, freedom and emerging post-colonial identity with poetic and dramatic intensity.

Cabascabo
Oumarou Ganda, Niger, 1968/69, 45', Niger, Zarma/French with English subs. Courtesy of Argos Films

Drawing from his own experience, Ganda portrays a Nigerien soldier returning from the French Indochina War. His homecoming reveals a painful disconnect: the heroism he imagined is met with suspicion and hardship. Shot in a stark, neorealist style, the film exposes the disillusionment of African veterans whose sacrifices went unacknowledged.

This screening is part of the Walk-in Cinema, the film programme accompanying the exhibition Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations.