Movies Haiti Page 5

Mondesir’s thesis film for York’s MFA program

The film follows a group of former female inmates who stage a play condemning the country’s prison system. At its center is Nathalie, who fights...

Shunned by fellow villagers for his past misdeeds as a political operative, a single father and his three daughters struggle to earn forgiveness.

Joane, a Haitian woman living in Chile, is accused of abandoning her baby at a municipal building. This leads to a series of events that result in...

An action film with multiple twists and turn; an almost unusual genre in Haitian cinema.

In 1980, the first feature film in Creole language "A la mise pou Rodrig" was distributed throughout the country featuring the singer Rodrigue...

A visual ode to Jean-Jacques Dessalines by Felix Morriseau-Leroy.

Stemming from her personal experience, her close ones’ testimonies and surprising encounters, Gessica Généus, Haitian filmmaker questions the...

A boy in rural Haiti develops an interest in cinema and helps his father acquire a TV set.

Down in Haiti, there is a lady named "Madan Paul". Madan Paul belongs to "Mesie Paul", her husband. Brenò is a poor guy with abslutely nothing and...

Edouard has been living in Port-au-Prince with just his daughter Zara for five years. Since his wife left, his daughter and him have only received a...

A Haitian woman's tranquil life is shattered by foreigners as she fights to stay alive and protect her ancestral land, unleashing a journey of...

Filmed in secret under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier, this incisive documentary explores the effects of foreign exploitation and...

Some say that a garanti talisman offers a direct connection with the gods, while others believe that ancestors need to act as intermediaries....

In French Guiana, in the middle of the carnival period, Emmanuel and Léon, two young, mixed-race brothers, attend their grandmother's funeral. ...

Come see the sites and sounds of Haiti's Kanaval (Carnival) 2008 in Port-Au-Prince, featuring a plethora of local music stars.

Nocturne was shot over 10 days (mostly at night), while thinking about material and poetic transformation—in dreams, in darkness, through objects...

Two young workers at a busy Port-au-Prince open air market have a conversation about the mystical properties of common objects and whether the divine...