Haiti Movies

Mondesir’s thesis film for York’s MFA program

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

A young girl is found dead off the Venezuelan coast. A medical examiner tries to determine the cause of death before the body is repatriated.

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...

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

Told through compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers, Poto Mitan gives the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal...

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...

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

Nadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to...

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

Naomie is my cousin, talking to her brings me back to my childhood in Port-au-Prince, and her family in the country whom she left when she turned...

Documentary about the Centre of Art in Port au Prince

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...

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

Chercher la Vie ("Looking tor Life") introduces the viewer to two women, Anne-Rose and Rosemène, who each have their own particular way of...

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,...

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...

"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...