Kaleb D’Aguilar: No Entry

Set against the backdrop of the Windrush Scandal and the UK’s ongoing Hostile Environment Policy, No Entry tells the quietly devastating story of Valerie Powell, a Jamaican-born woman who has lived in London since early childhood. Though she has built her life in Britain, raised a son, and contributed to her community, she finds herself suddenly cast as an outsider by the state. As the threat of deportation looms, Valerie’s once-safe home becomes a site of psychological unravelling. Her fears begin to fracture her relationship with her teenage son, and the walls around her grow ever tighter.

Inspired by real events and told with deep emotional insight, No Entry explores the toll of migration policy on family, mental health, and Black womanhood—unfolding a personal story within the wider historical and political landscape of the Caribbean diaspora in the UK.

About the director
Kaleb D’Aguilar is an award-winning writer/director who resides between London and his homeland Jamaica. He is a Commonwealth Shorts: Caribbean Voices (2021) recipient who holds an MA in Directing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BSc. in Anthropology from the University of the West Indies. His poetry and prose work has been published in numerous collections including PREE and the National Library of Jamaica’s ‘New Voices’ while his narrative film and video work have been showcased at the National Gallery of Jamaica as well as regional and international film festivals. He is a 2021 Commonwealth Shorts recipient whose work continues to explore reoccurring themes of Blackness, Caribbeanness, gender, sexuality, migration, familiar bonds, and the intersectional identities found between these margins.