Kannan Arunasalam

‘Possible Landscapes’: world premiere at BlackStar Film Festival, 3 August 2025


Thrilled to share that our feature documentary ‘Possible Landscapes’ will have its world premiere at the BlackStar Film Festival, a space for “politically engaged, aesthetically bold, and community-rooted cinema”.

‘Possible Landscapes’ is the result of a three-year collaboration with my longtime collaborators Tao DuFour (an architect and spatial theorist, Trinity College, Cambridge) and Natalie Melas (a postcolonial comparatist and student of Caribbean thought, Cornell University), and the many others who generously contributed their time and talent to the project.

POSSIBLE LANDSCAPES
 (2025, 105 mins, US)

An exploration of intergenerational experiences of Caribbean environments, shot over two seasons in Trinidad and Tobago. Moving through sugarcane fields, steep hillsides, and dying coral reefs, the film offers intimate portraits of daily life and examines the legacies of colonialism, post-independence aspirations, and extractivism.

Directed by Kannan Arunasalam
 Produced by Tao DuFour, Natalie Melas


Filmed by Kannan Arunasalam Written by Kannan Arunasalam, Tao DuFour, Natalie Melas Based on an original concept by Tao DuFour, Natalie Melas
 Edited by Kannan Arunasalam
 Music by Jeanine Ruiz