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The Harder They Come with Alfreda’s Cinema

“The Harder They Come” is a landmark of Caribbean cinema. The first full-length feature film shot in Jamaica by a Jamaican director with a fully Jamaican cast, it centers on a plot based on the lives of ordinary Jamaicans, making it unlike anything to come before.

💫 Perry Henzell’s THE HARDER THEY COME (1972) starring Jimmy Cliff ⭐️

at The Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church
📍890 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226
Enter on Church & E. 21st

w/ Pre-show shorts:
Aliyah Blackmore’s A Protection, a Calling (2023)
& Orbit (2019) by Ashleigh Alexandria & Carleen Shankle.
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Alfreda’s Cinema 2025 Open Air Film Sessions