Haiti Movies

Documentary from Isabelle DePelteau and Dan Shannon

The film follows a group of former female inmates who stage a play condemning the country’s prison system. At its center is Nathalie, who...

Filmed in secret under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier, this incisive documentary explores the effects of foreign exploitation and...

Every New Year, and in celebration of their Independence, Haitian families gather together to feast in honor of a line of ancestors that fought for...

"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...

Madame Pipi follows the personal journeys of female Haitian bathroom attendants in Miami’s hottest nightclubs and their support to Haiti...

Peril of the Antilles was filmed at the beginning of November 2010 while visiting a friend in Haiti. At this specific time, the cholera epidemic was...

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

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

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...

Living in one of the more dangerous suburbs of Port-au-Prince, Zora is a young orphan who fights for her life and that of her little brother,...

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...

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...

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

Kafe Negro tells the story of migrations around a small grain that became the second most important raw material on the global market. This film...

Chilean director Nicolás Pérez’s documentary draws its narrative from a house, two inhabitants. One nation, two perspectives....

The documentary evokes the devastating effects of the earthquake that struck the Haitian capital on January 12, 2010, through the words of Haiti's...

Fiel et Miel tells the story of Daril, an unemployed man who loves Mabele. Mabele's father, Paulchico, wants her to marry an educated and rich man. A...