In 2022, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud.

HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS

Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26

The Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St, New York, NY 10007

Screenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers, industry professionals and scholars.

$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED.

See full schedule by clicking on this: Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule

*** Films are in Haitian Creole w/ English Subtitles

Portrait of a Filmmaker with His Cat | Documentary | 5 MinutesDirector: Pierre-Michel Jean

My phone is like the black box of my life. I take it out of my pocket to memorize the slightest swirls of reality that challenge me. Retroactively, whole sections of my life can be told in this way. A few weeks before the global pandemic, I returned from a trip to Europe. This change of places, contexts of atmospheres and the sudden fear of the outside I wanted to show all that with my phone video archives. How the love of what I do, the love to inform others allows us to surpass ourselves.

Say Forgetting as a Lie /L’oublie pour Mensonge | Documentary | 33 minutesDirector : Pierre-Michel Jean

October 1937, the Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo massacred more than 20,000 Haitian immigrants in the North of the Dominican Republic. A genocide passed over in silence that the Domin-ican government still does not recognize today. Before the memories fade, child witnesses and survi-vors of this appalling massacre more than eight decades later tell fragments of their story. As a re-minder to ward off the present and guard against the future.

Towo La Cou| Documentary | 65 minutes

Director: Pierre-Michel Jean

Every year at Easter, the heirs of the musical Rara Group ‘‘Towo La Cou’’ barely manage to pay the musicians and thus honor the tradition of their father: bringing the group to downtown Léogâne and defends the colors of Acul, their small village. This documentary film follows ‘‘Towo La Cou’’, a story of a whole community of destinies suspended by the toll of the high cost of living and a visceral need for music.

Post-Film Screening Q&A with Director & Filmmaker Guetty Félin