Haiti Movies

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

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 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...

In 1964, following the embarkation of around thirty men intent on overthrowing him, the Haitian dictator Duvalier launched a campaign of terror to...

Down in Haiti, there is a lady named "Madan Paul". Madan Paul belongs to "Mesie Paul", her husband. Brenò is a poor guy with abslutely nothing...

Come see the sites and sounds of Haiti's Kanaval (Carnival) 2008 in Port-Au-Prince, featuring a plethora of local music stars.

A cinéma vérité documentary portrait of a wise old Haitian midwife and healer who runs a rural health clinic from her modest...

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

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

The Haitian government decides to develop a tourist project in the forgotten island of Île-à-Vache, an unexploited paradise in the...

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...

Mondesir’s thesis film for York’s MFA program

"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...

The film Zatrap, shot in Black & White, in 16 MM, and in Creole/French, pinpoints the problems of a departmentalized Martinique, which no longer...

Documentary about L'Orchestre Tropicana d'Haïti, a multi-instrumentalist musical band founded in 1963 in the city of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.

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

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

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

This award-winning film chronicles the political events and human tragedy surrounding the 1991 military coup d état in Haiti and the bloody...