Haiti Movies

Mondesir’s thesis film for York’s MFA program

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

Tinamiz, a banana saleswoman from Jacmel (Haïti) raises her seven-year-old daughter alone while she tries to win her husband Andre back, an...

First Haitian feature-length film.

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...

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...

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...

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

Cafe Au Lait - with lotsa sugar, baby! begins when fair-skinned Alain (Pasha Brandt) falls for black Creole Minoushka (Milca Volny), and their family...