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Tinamiz, a banana saleswoman from Jacmel (Haïti) raises her seven-year-old daughter alone while she tries to win her husband Andre back, an...

Maxime Jean-Baptiste continues the research he started in "Nou Voix" (2018) concerning colonial memory, the Guyanese diaspora, and the staging of...

Haitian artist and activist Sanba Yonel creates a queer tribute to the Lwa, Vodou gods and goddesses who once inspired a revolution. In Haiti, men...

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...

The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon their boat traveling through the mysterious cave named after Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought...

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...

The result of a close collaboration between dancer-choreographer Linda I. François and filmmaker Wendy Desert. Song, poem, trance, and ritual...

Ritual dances, incantations and fetishes in an associative sequence of mystical scenes reveal the roots of the Afro-Cuban minority in Bauta, Cuba,...

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

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

Six years in the making and filmed clandestinely under the Duvalier dictatorship, Bitter Cane is a timeless documentary classic about the...

Mondesir’s thesis film for York’s MFA program

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...

The Haitian Sea, as you’ve never seen or heard it before: the sea tells the story of its relationship with the Haitian people, showcases its...

This documentary, made in 1976, is a critique of naive painting in the Duvalierist era. It establishes the link between cultural and political...

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

Trials and tribulations of a poor peasant woman who moved to Port-au-Prince. Shot on 35mm.

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

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,...