Haiti Movies

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...

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

A curious college student travels to Haiti to unravel the life of the president. What she finds is...unspeakable. While investigating the past 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...

In a remote corner of Santiago de Cuba, a family of Haitian origin celebrates the goddess Erzulie in prayer and dance. The family shares the pain...

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

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

A restless daughter meets a spirit-fish who gives her pure water. But as her family devours the delicious water, they begin to suspect more than the...

Young Anita's life consists of working as a servant to a wealthy family, leaving her little time for anything else. Her servitude (which some would...

Trials and tribulations of a poor peasant woman who moved to Port-au-Prince. Shot on 35mm.

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...

A lawyer, living a hectic and seemingly successful existence in Port-au-Prince, is too busy to pay attention to his personal life until he takes a...

Stemming from her personal experience, her close ones’ testimonies and surprising encounters, Gessica Généus, Haitian filmmaker...

Two young workers at a busy Port-au-Prince open air market have a conversation about the mystical properties of common objects and whether the divine...

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...

Filmed clandestinely under the Duvalier dictatorship, the film shows the exploitation of the Haitian people. From peasant farms in the tropical...

In the Haitian countryside, where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine, peasants have learned to use local...