From February 21 to 28, 2026, more than fifty films will be screened across the archipelago, delighting the movie lovers.
Thirty years of existence is an anniversary worth celebrating! To mark the occasion, one of the oldest and most famous film festivals in the Caribbean, FÉMI, which takes place in Guadeloupe for a week, has decided to invite: Jocelyne Béroard, Martinican singer and member of the group Kassav’, who is well acquainted with Caribbean cinema, having already appeared in films such as Euzhan Palcy’s “Siméon” (1992) and Jean-Claude Barny’s “Nèg Maron” (2005); the Zouk diva is the guest of honor at this 30th edition of FÉMI. Gaël Octavia, Martinican filmmaker and author who received the 2025 Prix Goncourt for Short Stories, is the patron of FÉMI 2026.
In addition to these two female personalities from Caribbean culture, the festival welcomes Astrid Siwsanker (Guadeloupean dramatic artist, singer, and director); Paul Roselé-Chim (professor at the University of Guyane); Safoi Babana-Hampton (director and professor of French and Francophone studies at Michigan State University); Omar Sambasékou (American director and producer of Burkinabe origin); Jinán Al-Shereidah Narvaez (Venezuelan director, screenwriter, and producer of Iraqi origin); Céline Aho-Nienne (director from Réunion); and Olivier Mussate (producer from Réunion).
Film students from Guadeloupe and members of the association combating violence against women “Koumbit Fanm Karayib” will take part in the festival’s various juries.
More than fifty films (short films, feature films, documentaries, etc.) by directors from various countries (Cameroon, Rwanda, Guinea, DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, India, the United States, Mayotte, Madagascar, Réunion, Cuba, Haiti, Martinique, French Guiana, and Guadeloupe) will be screened for film lovers at several locations across the archipelago (Le Lamentin, Saint-François, Capesterre Belle-Eau, Deshaies, Sainte-Rose, Les Abymes, Basse-Terre, Le Moule, Le Gosier, Terre-de-Haut), not to mention book signings and a “literary kafé” evening with Gaël Octavia and a symposium lecture organized by Paul Roselé-Chim.
