Ayiti Mon Amour
Description
Haitian-born filmmaker Guetty Felin invokes the country’s past and present with a chorale for several voices of residents attempting to love, prosper and survive in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. Jaurès, an old fisherman who talks to his cow, struggles to look after his beloved ailing wife, Odessa. Teenage Orphée, whose father perished in the earthquake, goes swimming in the sea and emerges with his body holding an electrical current, transforming him into a human charging station. Rags, the empty clothing of temblor victims, cover rocks on the shore. But seen underwater, the tattered garments appear as living, disembodied humans, animated by the spirits of the dead. And in town, demonstrators denounce government corruption, and the fishermen complain angrily about their livelihood being destroyed. Ayiti Mon Amour captures the hopes and fears of the Haitian people at a critical moment in their history. —Miguel Pendás
Guetty Felin was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in New York. She earned an MFA in cinema from the University of Paris. Her work includes Closer to the Dream (2010), a grass-roots account of Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign, and Broken Stones (2012), a documentary about the devastation of the 2010 earthquake in the old part of Port-au-Prince. “Ayiti Mon Amour,” she says, “is a love poem to my native land, a place that I ache for, that haunts me, that frightens and yet angers me, a place that I am fiercely and madly in love with.”
Trailer
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LanguageCreole, French, English, Japanese
Year2016
PremiereUS
Runtime88
CountryHaiti/USA
DirectorGuetty Felin
ProducerGuetty Felin, Hervé Cohen, Jessica Anthony
WriterGuetty Felin
EditorStéphane Vernet Augustin, Isabelle Devinck
CinematographerHervé Cohen
CastJoakim Cohen, Anisia Uzeyman, Jaures Andris, James Noel