Haiti Movies

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

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

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

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

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

Documentary about the Centre of Art in Port au Prince

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...

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.

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

A visual ode to Jean-Jacques Dessalines by Felix Morriseau-Leroy.

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

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

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...

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

In 1980, the first feature film in Creole language "A la mise pou Rodrig" was distributed throughout the country featuring the singer Rodrigue...

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