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Keep them Talking

Directed by Simon Frey

2016 – 20'

Synopsis

In Youthy’s world ‘nobody can be trusted’! Set in rural Jamaica Keep them Talking tells the story of Youthy, a farmer struggling to make a living. Everybody is against him. They steal from him, put spells on him and try to keep him down. It has all got too much and this is the final straw. The only way to turn things around is to take action and to throw spells back at them.
Keep them Talking gives an exclusive insight into today’s social reality of Obeah (witchcraft), an illegal practice in Jamaica since 1781.

RAI FILM Festival 2025

The next RAI FILM Festival will take place in person from 27-30 March 2025 at the Watershed Cinema and the Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol (UK) and online throughout the month of April 2025.