Wotchuka Kuchokera Haiti

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

An early cut of the footage seen in Chants and Dances for Hand.

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

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

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...

Three brothers go on a vacation and realize they need help around the house to function. One of them falls in love along the way.

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

Recounts the founding of Haiti through the eyes of two captured African tribespeople, Sili and Simba. Starting with their capture in Africa, the...

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

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

Come see the sites and sounds of Haiti's Kanaval (Carnival) 2008 in Port-Au-Prince, featuring a plethora of local music stars.

The emblematic film of Haitian youth and the most exemplary, giving a new color to the stories of college students adapted to Haitian life.

Ritual dances, incantations and fetishes in an associative sequence of mystical scenes reveal the roots of the Afro-Cuban minority in Bauta, Cuba,...

Some say that a garanti talisman offers a direct connection with the gods, while others believe that ancestors need to act as intermediaries....

The result of a close collaboration between dancer-choreographer Linda I. François and filmmaker Wendy Desert. Song, poem, trance, and ritual...

In the Schloss Friedrichsfelde–a picturesque, neoclassical pleasure palace in North East Berlin–the ghosts of history begin to make...

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...

The Haitian Revolution 1791-1804 echoes in a small town in Rio Grande do Sul. Ancestral and diaspora songs are evoked to confront the colony, its...

Haitian artist and activist Sanba Yonel creates a queer tribute to the Lwa, Vodou gods and goddesses who once inspired a revolution. In Haiti, men...