1980: the repression is in full swing in Haiti. A decree is going to ban all independent speaking and all manifestation of thought. Artists, writers, journalists, democrats all pay the price. A radio station, Haiti Inter, and its journalists are at the center of the storm. This film reconstructs a typical broadcast of Haiti Inter in the 1980s.
Maxime Jean-Baptiste continues the research he started in "Nou Voix" (2018) concerning colonial memory, the Guyanese diaspora, and the staging of Black bodies. By questioning how “official” narratives are constructed, the film "Moune Ô" encourages a shift in perspective regarding the link between colonisation and extractivism.
Mondesir’s thesis film for York’s MFA program
Tinamiz, a banana saleswoman from Jacmel (Haïti) raises her seven-year-old daughter alone while she tries to win her husband Andre back, an artist who left them to supposedly find work in the city.
This documentary, made in 1976, is a critique of naive painting in the Duvalierist era. It establishes the link between cultural and political context and deals in particular with the conditions of the emergence of this painting since the 40s, and the questions which it arises.
The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon their boat traveling through the mysterious cave named after Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution. It is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history.
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 can inhabit any kind of object—mass produced bottles, toxic rivers, beheaded goats.
Cafe Au Lait - with lotsa sugar, baby! begins when fair-skinned Alain (Pasha Brandt) falls for black Creole Minoushka (Milca Volny), and their family and friends are not at all happy about the romance. And the cozier the two get, the more determined their disapproving loved ones become on splitting them up. NikkiMix, Dadou Pasquet, Marie Felix Lemite and Aubry Blague co-star in this charming romantic comedy set in South Florida's Creole community.
Filmed clandestinely under the Duvalier dictatorship, the film shows the exploitation of the Haitian people. From peasant farms in the tropical mountains to foreign-owned sweatshops in Port-au-Prince, the film takes the viewer on a journey through Haitian history to a deeper grasp of the country’s political economy today.
A portrait of Georges Corvington, the man who had one single passion in his life: Port-au-Prince; he patiently tried to decode its DNA and recreate its urban genome.
In 1964, following the landing of around thirty men intent on overthrowing him, the Haitian dictator Duvalier launched a campaign of terror to deter peasants from joining the rebellion, composed of men from the Southeast region where they had settled. Over 50 years later, the peasants recount their story for the first time.
A heartbreaking investigation about the sexual exploitation of Haitian homeless children living in poverty in the streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital and most populous city of Haiti, in the mid-90s.
Documentary about L'Orchestre Tropicana d'Haïti, a multi-instrumentalist musical band founded in 1963 in the city of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.
A cinéma vérité documentary portrait of a wise old Haitian midwife and healer who runs a rural health clinic from her modest thatched roof hut near the Jacmel River along Haiti's southern coast. Madanm Ti Zo offers a rare glimpse into traditional life of rural Haitian peasants.
Bazilik Patikola is a Haitian martial art and game of skill, practiced with a stick, and in its most advanced stage, with a machete. The documentary shares with us the initiatory journey of a young woman in the practice of this combat art.
Some say that a garanti talisman offers a direct connection with the gods, while others believe that ancestors need to act as intermediaries. Whatever the case, the result is the same: a garanti offers protection and brings happiness.
Winner of the Djibril Diop Mambety award at the Cannes Festival in 2002, this film tells the story of 2 women stone crushers and their daily struggle for survival and dignity in today's Haiti. It shows the contrast between, on one hand, the Stone Age and on the other, the world of modern transportation
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 the baby's death.
In 1980, the first feature film in Creole language "A la mise pou Rodrig" was distributed throughout the country featuring the singer Rodrigue Milien: filmed in 16mm and enlarged to 35 millimeters.
An action film with multiple twists and turn; an almost unusual genre in Haitian cinema.
