Take Back

Take Back 2023

5.00

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 resilience and empowerment.

2023

Your Body, Your Responsibility

Your Body, Your Responsibility 1989

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Se Met Ko is a model fictional analysis of attitudes and misconceptions about AIDS within a Haitian-American neighbourhood. The video uses indigenous cultural references and socially-specific occasions to demonstrate how communities, with individuals acting in enlightened co-operation, can responsibly respond to the AIDS crisis.

1989

Nocturne

Nocturne 2014

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Nocturne was shot over 10 days (mostly at night), while thinking about material and poetic transformation—in dreams, in darkness, through objects or ideas—in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. During this time I was hosted by the Quatre Chemins Festival, whose collaborators became an important part of the project. Daphne Menard, appears in Nocturne singing a traditional Haitian song about a young man who goes off to buy coffee and is arrested by police. Guy Regis Junior's mother, an assiduous lottery player, describes her lottery dreams and the common system for deciphering their codes. Two young theater students, from ENARTS, Port-au-Prince's art school, rehearse a speech, written for the occasion.

2014

Bazilik Patikola, le voyage d'Esther

Bazilik Patikola, le voyage d'Esther 2022

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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.

2022

Moune Ô

Moune Ô 2022

6.00

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.

2022

Journée d'couleur

Journée d'couleur 2006

1

The emblematic film of Haitian youth and the most exemplary, giving a new color to the stories of college students adapted to Haitian life.

2006

Cuando llega la noche

Cuando llega la noche 2023

1

A short film about the director’s relationship with sewing, a craft he knew from a very young age thanks to his seamstress mother.

2023

Manno Charlemagne: A Man's Life

Manno Charlemagne: A Man's Life 1970

1

Documentary about the life of Haitian musician and song writer, Emmanuel Charlemagne. That artist was an important element of the popular Haitian socio-political movements in the 1980's and 1990's. His music had a strong presence and certainly influenced Haitian history prior to the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier.

1970

407 Days

407 Days 2020

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Paul Junior Casimir, better known as Lintho, is a Haitian puppeteer. While he quietly carries on with his art, he becomes the object of jealousy from those around him and he is arrested without any reason. The artist will spend 407 days in prison.

2020

Drapo A

Drapo A 2022

1

The Haitian Revolution 1791-1804 echoes in a small town in Rio Grande do Sul. Ancestral and diaspora songs are evoked to confront the colony, its representatives and its laws.

2022

Madame Cléante will not go to the graveyard

Madame Cléante will not go to the graveyard 2016

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In French Guiana, in the middle of the carnival period, Emmanuel and Léon, two young, mixed-race brothers, attend their grandmother's funeral. Confronted by the reminiscences of the past, the memories of their childhood resurface and with them deeply buried secrets.

2016

San pran souf

San pran souf 2009

1

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

2009

Le president a-t-il le sida

Le president a-t-il le sida 2006

1

A singer who leads a wild life of sex and drugs falls in love for the first time in his life when he is diagnosed with AIDS.

2006

Cafe Au Lait - with lotsa sugar, baby!

Cafe Au Lait - with lotsa sugar, baby! 2006

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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.

2006

Madanm Ti Zo

Madanm Ti Zo 2004

1

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.

2004

We love you Anne

We love you Anne 2013

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Anne has grown up. Now she's allowed to see her boyfriend Kato who became a famous singer and musician. Jude is getting out of jail but has not forgotten the love of his life. Deme is still the loyal friend of Anne's father but his daughter Sofia wants to be part of the new love game. Bicha is soon unable to control the situation.

2013

Kalfou plezi pye devan

Kalfou plezi pye devan 1995

1

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.

1995

A la mise pou Rodrig

A la mise pou Rodrig 1980

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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.

1980

Mermaids

Mermaids 2024

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Daniel, a widowed father in northern Martinique, lives with his 8-year-old daughter, Soraya. A fisherman and restaurateur, he struggles to survive in a town plagued by economic and social crises.

2024

Radio Haïti-Inter: Straight to the Point

Radio Haïti-Inter: Straight to the Point 1980

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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.

1980