Haiti Movies

Documentary about L'Orchestre Tropicana d'Haïti, a multi-instrumentalist musical band founded in 1963 in the city of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.

Trials and tribulations of a poor peasant woman who moved to Port-au-Prince. Shot on 35mm.

After the murder of a journalist, police investigate a young suspect: Rolland Rameau.

The film Zatrap, shot in Black & White, in 16 MM, and in Creole/French, pinpoints the problems of a departmentalized Martinique, which no longer...

A young Haitian boy must decide if joining a gang is the right path for him.

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

This award-winning film chronicles the political events and human tragedy surrounding the 1991 military coup d état in Haiti and the bloody...

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...

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

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

A 26-year-old man becomes gravely ill and died of an unknown disease. He was clearly hexed: it’s October 1980 and we are in Haïti....

A young guitarist is kicked out of his friend's home when he believes the guitarist to be courting the woman he loved.

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

An action film with multiple twists and turn; an almost unusual genre in Haitian cinema.

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

After a mother throws out her husband, she loses control of her daughter