A child's forbidden gaze into a dying Caribbean spirit — one look could cost everything.
Oseyi, an eight-year-old boy, lives in the village of Colihaut, in Dominica, which is the home of a particular masquerade/carnival art-form/African Retention known as the Bann Mové.
Direction
Bully captures masquerade mysticism with documentary patience.
Cinematography
Dominica's lush dread — beauty that feels slightly threatening.
Acting
Langlais carries ancestral weight in tiny shoulders.
Director
Alwyn Bully
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bann Mové (Band Mauvais) emerged as enslaved people's satirical mockery of European masquerade balls, subverting colonizer aesthetics into African-coded resistance. The film treats this as living, endangered practice.
Director Alwyn Bully co-founded Dominica's national theatre and fought for decades to get this specific masquerade form documented before elder practitioners passed — the film is essentially an elegy in motion.
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