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- Freda lives with her family in a popular neighborhood in Haiti. They survive with their little street food shop. The precariousness and violence of their daily life push them to do everything they can to escape their situation.
- A Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
- Documents the violent lives of gang leaders in Haiti's worst slum, focusing on two brothers loyal to then-President Aristide.
- Bridgeport, January 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.
- Doc and Zoe are just hired for the night to deliver an unknown package. At a crossroad, they stumble upon a dog. In Haiti, each crossroad requires a sacrifice.
- The sequel of I love you Anne. Anne has grown up. Now she's allowed to see her boyfriend Kato who became a famous singer and musician. Jude is getting out of jail but has not forgotten the love of his life. Deme is still the loyal friend of Anne's father but his daughter Sofia wants to be part of the new love game. Bicha is soon unable to control the situation.
- Children of Haiti follows three Haitian teenage boys who live on the streets as they reflect on their country, their lives, and the hope they have for a better future.
- Joseph, fleeing Haiti under the dictatorship of Baby Doc, goes to New York and becomes obsessed with hunting his torturer down.
- What happens when a maid from the Haitian poor countryside meets a boy from a wealthy Port-au-Prince middle-class family? Unexpected and disturbing love in a highly conventional society. A story of tenderness and sorrow.
- A young Haitian philosophy student leaves his hometown behind after the death of his mother, to possibly continue his education in the capital, and soon finds himself working for a wealthy family whose daughter is rapidly falling for him.
- In the border town of Malpaso: Braulio works with his grandfather while his twin, Candido, remains secluded due to his albinism. After their grandfather passes, Braulio will look after Candido, who dreams of the return of their father.
- A story with heart and soul, made by the new generation of Haitian filmmakers, about the hard reality of being young in a troubled country. When Jessica's father who was in the US dies, she's soon homeless and must go to her friend Joanne.
- The story of a pregnant 14-year-old girl living in a Dominican sugar plantation.
- 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.
- To reveal the culture, history, strength and resiliency of the Haitian People as seen through the optic of the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Ms. Oriol believes it is important to relate the experiences of the earthquake from a Haitian perspective. The urge to share their stories moved her to actualize a documentary exposing their life changing experiences and inform the international community about the earthquake's effects at an individual level. Consequently the documentary provides a platform to give a voice to the voiceless, reveals cultural character traits and exposes the Haitian Spirit. Filmed entirely in Haitian Creole, this project is a gift to her fellow Haitians so that a better understanding of who they are are comes from their own words.
- Vocation deals in a romanticized way with the profession of journalist and the vocation dedicated to it.
- No one is born poor, rich, servant or anything else, you simply become one of those, depending on what an omnipotent and powerful being wants to do with you. Our machinations are disturbing society, and if we wanted to, we could stop that.
- Directed by French documentary filmmaker Charles Najman, Royal Bonbon is the tale of a modern-day man who believes himself to be Henri Christophe, liberator of Haitian slaves during the early 1800s. King Chacha (Dominique Battraville) declares himself a ruler and his lady friend (Anne-Louise Mesadieux) a queen. When he is kicked out of Cap-Haitien, he joins up with young boy Thimothee (Benji) for a journey out of town. They end up in the abandoned palace of Sans Souci, which Chrisophe had built himself. Gathering support from the population of the next village, King Chacha lives out his dream as a ruler. Before long, he becomes a tyrant and is overthrown in a revolt.
- The emblematic film of Haitian youth and the most exemplary, giving a new color to the stories of college students adapted to Haitian life. Humor, love, jealousy, hatred, rivalry and argument. It's really what corresponds to Haiti's teens.
- Shot in early 2004 during the commemoration of the bicentennial of Haiti, this film offers a unique light on the last days to the presidency of Aristide, former priest of the poor became apprentice dictator. It is a reflection on the history of the first black republic in the world, a nation shared between the memory of its glorious revolution and the tragic litany of despots that have overwhelmed it since its independence.
- A player and a single mother try to forget their past and rebuild their lives together.
- A sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to modern, made in collaboration with dancers, musicians, fishermen, daredevil rollerbladers, and Vodou priests, set to poetry by Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel.
- A romantic adventure set in Haiti and in the US. It tells the story of a successful Haitian-American attorney and a New York physician. His world is turned upside down by a ménage à trois and a journey to Haiti, where he finds his roots.
- Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.
- When fair-skinned Alain falls for Minoushka, a beautiful and gorgeous black Creole woman, centuries of ancestral and familial decorum manage to creep through. As the romance blossoms, everyone turns against it.
- Haitian couple who work on a sugar cane plantation in the Dominican Republic escape the desperate conditions of the 'bateyes' (cane cutters' communities) and make their way back to Haiti.
- A drama that explores the darkest aspects of the dictatorship in Haiti, adapted from the play "Na Debat".
- A ghost who Fall in love to a girl named and a couple of person of the government put him as candidate for president
- The story of a man's obsession with a woman, of someone who is ready to do anything to have this woman, and to keep her at all costs.
- Sarah 2 is the sequel to Sarah. It begins 2 years after God answers Sarah and Simon's prayer to have a child. Life is good. The troubles of Sarah's past are behind her, so she thinks. Until she finds out her mother (Elsie) has been hiding many more family secrets. Sarah will find out the price she will have to pay is beyond imaginary.
- A young woman, wrestling with feelings of guilt, must make amends with her past before it's too late.
- "Avec Naomie" is a family story centered around the social Haitian tradition of placing young poor kids from the countryside in wealthier families in the city, to perform various domestic chores. This is the story of the director's cousin.
- Martine, a very ambitious professional woman, is ready to do anything to obtain a promotion. Grégory, her senior in rank, wants to give her a hand if she accepts his advances. She tries to manipulate Grégory but her husband soon finds out.
- A romantic story centering on Henry, a young DJ, and his radio show called "Protège-moi".
- Come see the sites and sounds of Haiti's Kanaval (Carnival) 2008 in Port-Au-Prince, featuring a plethora of local music stars.
- It tells the story of two best friends who are trapped by the admiration and fixation of one woman, Amelie Duval.
- Examines love dilemmas and complicated relationships between country people and city dwellers in Haiti.