Kumina Queen

Imogene Queenie Kennedy was a contemporary priestess in postcolonial Jamaica who catapulted her African spiritual practice into renown But after centuries of erasure what remains of the dance between the living and the dead In the wake of the loss of her mother the filmmaker travels into the heart of Jamaican countryside to research kumina an ancestral ritual The ancient practice she learns is a driving force in Jamaicas culture and identity yet during the colonial period its leaders were discarded as witches and even criminalized Today Queenies mysterious world of spirit possession reveals divergent pathways to freedom healing and transformationto those who choose it