Haiti Movies

An acting ensemble rehearses for an upcoming theater festival. They rig up stage scenery and practice dialogue and set pieces in the middle of a...

Chilean director Nicolás Pérez’s documentary draws its narrative from a house, two inhabitants. One nation, two perspectives....

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

Zombie escapes from prison and says in TV that he's in love with a woman, becoming very popular in Haiti. Politicians decide to support his...

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...

Mondesir’s thesis film for York’s MFA program

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

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

Documentary about the Centre of Art in Port au Prince

Nadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to...

A 26-year-old man becomes gravely ill and died of an unknown disease. He was clearly hexed: it’s October 1980 and we are in Haïti....

"I am the Creole pig. I am who I am. I am the pig of your ancestors. There is no other pig but me, the Creole pig, black, apocalyptic, a pig from the...

Chercher la Vie ("Looking tor Life") introduces the viewer to two women, Anne-Rose and Rosemène, who each have their own particular way of...

The history of the people of Haiti, from the landing of Columbus on the "Pearl of the Pacific" to the recent period and the difficult struggles for...

A wretched man wanders the streets of Cap-Haitien, dreaming of his imaginary kingdom. He thinks he's the King Christophe, the first ruler of the New...

Chèche Lavi is a lyrical portrait of two Haitian migrants, Robens and James, who find themselves stranded at the US-Mexico border with no way...

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.

Through two cases - a mother and a father - and their daily struggle for survival, we discover the mechanisms of the Haitian economy's largest...

During the 29 years of the Duvalier's rule, mass crimes were committed at different times, in different parts of the country against people of all...

Told through compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers, Poto Mitan gives the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal...