10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
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Guetty Felin | Haiti | 2016 | 88 min | French, Creole, English, Japanese | e.s.
A Haitian teenager becomes obsessed with learning Japanese, refuses to speak French to his mother and doesn’t want to interact with his peers. Nothing has been the same since his father’s sudden death during the 2010 earthquake. Then he discovers he has a special gift. In the meantime, an old fisherman who lives nearby is worried about his beloved wife. She suffers from a mysterious disease that can only be cured by the sea. But how? A little way away, the female character of an author with writer’s block comes to life. She too has a lot to solve still on this disaster-prone Caribbean island. The emphasis in this minimalist, neo-realist fairy tale – primarily shot using natural light – is on the strength of humans and nature. And on the sudden instances of magic that can help the desperate.
Place: CINEMA 5
Date: 8 April 2016
Time: 21:45
Duration: 1:30
Place: CINEMA 5
Date: 9 April 2016
Time: 13:00
Duration: 1:30
Place: CINEMA 5
Date: 10 April 2016
Time: 18:45
Duration: 1:30
Year in
Festival
2016
Director
Guetty Felin
Camera
Cast
Country
Haiti
Editor
Stéphane Vernet Augustin
Isabelle Devinck
Language
French
Creole
English
Japanese
Length
88 min
Music
Mike Morasky
Producer
Production Company
BelleMoon Productions
2004Images-Haiti
Scenario
Sound Design
Yeelen Cohen
Sapha SamedyReay
Year of Production
2016
Guetty FELIN-COHEN works as an independent filmmaker. After attending the Paris School of Cinema she has lived in the USA, France and Haiti where she made various films and reports for European and American TV channels. She regularly collaborates with her partner Hervé Cohen.
Filmography
(selection) Closer to the Dream (2009, doc, co-dir), Broken Stones (2012, doc), Ayiti mon amour (2016)