MARTINIQUE : ROBERT MANSCOUR

The penultimate episodeof *Stories of Caribbean Cinema* brings us closer to the present. Since the first installment, which focused on the 1960s, eight episodes have explored various regions, generations, and ways of portraying the Caribbean on film. This ninth installment brings together two very different works. In *Battledream Chronicle*, Alain Bidard transports Martinique into a futuristic world built around a virtual game. In *Buladó*, Eché Janga returns to Curaçao to explore grief, spirits, and the tensions between rationality and magical thinking. You are now on the ninth episode out of ten. The first eight are already available on Richès Karayib. The next installment will conclude this chronology with Haiti and Guadeloupe. 2015: MARTINIQUE – BATTLEDREAM CHRONICLE, BY ALAIN BIDARD This film is an exception in this chronology: in fact, it is one of only two animated feature films from the Caribbean film industry. A remarkable feat: both were created entirely—both