Haiti Movies

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...

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...

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

A documentary film created in Myrlande Constant's Port-au-Prince home; it offers a vivid sense of her personality and environment. Commissioned for...

The Arab community is a thriving one in Haiti. The documentary Un Certain Bord de Mer examines their history and describes in details the up and...

Francois leaves Haiti by sailboat to the USA, leaving behind his wife, Mirlande, who is six months pregnant. She has to wait ten days to hear from...

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

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,...

This documentary centers on the lives and work of six active and creative women who contribute to the social and cultural life of Haiti. Micheline...

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

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

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 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...

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

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