Documentary | INDIVISUM : LEGACIES ADRIFT

Family land in Guadeloupe, a French territory in the Caribbean region. Dozens of heirs. Conflicts spanning several generations.

For this Canadian filmmaker returning to her ancestral homeland of Guadeloupe, the conflicts in her family become the starting point for a personal quest.

She seeks to unravel the root cause of family discords due to land inheritance. What she discovers goes beyond her own story. In this unique place, thousands of families are prisoners of their own land and property unable to develop, enjoy or sell it.

Eventually, she lifts the veil on a little known legacy of colonialism: a system that continues, even today, to break up Guadeloupean families and dispossess them of what belongs to them, one plot of land at a time.

Katia Café-Fébrissy

Founder and President of KaFé Productions Inc., a Toronto-based bilingual boutique production company, Katia Café-Fébrissy is driven by a creative restlessness and the urge to tell intimate stories with boldness and intention.

"As a French-speaking woman of Caribbean descent living in Canada, she approaches storytelling through a unique and diverse lens. Her intersectional lived experiences serve as her primary source of inspiration, aiming to bring positive and authentic representation of marginalized communities to the screen."

An alumna of the Hot Docs Fellowship Talent Lab and the Berlinale EFM Toolbox, Katia developed her debut feature documentary, INDIVISUM, which received prestigious production funding from Telefilm’s Talent to Watch program.