Haiti Movies

This film is realized with the traditional technique of drawings on paper, is made by about one thousands original drawings.

Mondesir’s thesis film for York’s MFA program

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

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

Cafe Au Lait - with lotsa sugar, baby! begins when fair-skinned Alain (Pasha Brandt) falls for black Creole Minoushka (Milca Volny), and their family...

The voices of prominent historians join the memories of Haitians and their descendants in Cuba to understand a chapter of the complex economic and...

Documentary about the life of Haitian musician and song writer, Emmanuel Charlemagne. That artist was an important element of the popular Haitian...

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...

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...

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

After a mother throws out her husband, she loses control of her daughter

Follows the defiance of two art institutions in the Caribbean: one closed but squatted by artists, the other fighting to stay open. Against the...

In 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the massacre of over 20,000 Haitian immigrants living in the Dominican Republic. Daphné...

Documentary about the Centre of Art in Port au Prince

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

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

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...

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...

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