10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024

FILMS 2024:  Caribbean Focus | Feature Films | Short Films | Yellow Robin Award Nominees
FILMS 2019: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2018: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film

Mountains

Monica Sorelle | USA, Haiti | 2023 | 95 min | Creole, English, Spanish | e.s.

Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) and his wife Esperance (Sheila Anozier), a Haitian couple living in Miami´s Little Haiti, struggle with economic precarity and feeling like outsiders in their rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. Their son Junior (Chris Renois), who was born in the US and always replies in English when his parents speak to him in Creole, nonetheless mines his Haitian background for material for a stand-up comedy routine that he keeps secret from his overbearing father.
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Monica Sorelle´s impressive debut feature is a sensitive, character-focused exploration of the immigrant experience in the United States. Exquisitely shot in lurid, crisp colors, the movie is meditative and poetic, delicately weaving together a series of moments to tell a story that is both quietly personal and richly symbolic. 

Place: The Cinemas 

Date: April 11 

Time: 20:30 

Duration:95min

Place: The Cinemas

Date: April 12

Time: 20:00 

Duration:95min

Place: The Cinemas

Date: April 13 

Time: 12:30 

Duration:95min

Place: The Cinemas

Date: April 14 

Time: 17:00 

Duration:95min

Year in
Festival

2024

Director

Monica Sorelle

Country

USA, Haiti

Language

Creole, English, Spanish

Length

95

Year of Production

2023