HAITIAN FILM SERIES:

jointly sponsored by NYSWI, the local chapter of FONKOZE, Haiti's bank for the organized poor and FRENCH STUDIES, the French program in the Department of Languages Literatures and Cultures

-Tuesday, March 16, 7:30 p.m. Paige Hall
Bitter Cane
With director: Kim Ives Year: 1983 Length: 75 minutes Awards: 2nd Prize Cannes
Film Festival (Documentary competition), 1st Prize Antwerp Film Festival,
Silver Plaque, Chicago Film Festival, Jury Prize, Florence Film Festival and
others.
Kim Ives will talk about the making of the film. He is a filmmaker who has worked on several films about Haiti including Bitter Cane, Haiti: Killing the Dream, and Rezistans. He is also a
journalist and editor with Haïti Progrès, the largest Haitian weekly, and is a member of the Haiti Support Network, an association of solidarity activists based in New York and Miami.

Examines the history of Haiti, from the 1804 revolution to the occupation
(1915-34) by U.S. Marines, and the repressive Duvalier regimes of 'Papa Doc" and 'Baby Doc.'
A vision of Haitian society: the farmers and workers, the historic and economic roots of migration. The role of the U.S.'s political and economic presence is analyzed. (Secretly filmed for six years in Haiti).

-Tuesday March 23, 7:30 p.m. Paige Hall
Haitian Pilgrimage
Produced and directed by Robin Lloyd, l992,29 min A Haitian-American family takes a three-week pilgrimage to a church and waterfall shrine at Saut-D'Eau, in Central Haiti. They re-discover Vodun's potential as a force for liberatory change
Breaking Leaves
With director Karen Kramer. 1988, 30 min.
A journey through the Haitian countryside with traditional healers provides view of the country's long tradition of holistic healing.Narrated by the people themselves
Karen Kramer will talk about filmmaking in Haiti and her observations of traditional religion and healing

-Tuesday, April 13, 7:30 p.m., Paige Hall
Man By The Shore ('L'Homme Sur Le Quai')
Feature film by Raoul Peck. l993, 105 min.
Set in 'Papa Doc's' Haiti, circa 1960's, this is the story of 8-year old Sara's intuitive struggle for survival in the malevolent political and social environment of dictatorship. Sara's father was forced to leave Haiti by a vicious tonton macoute strongman. Janvier, leaving Sara behind under the precarious protection of her grandmother

Tuesday, April 20, 7:30 p.m., Paige Hall
A Pig's Tale
Produced and directed by Leah Gordon and Anne Parisio, l997, 52 min.
Twelve years after the US-AID program eliminated Haitian pigs, the mainstay of the peasant economy, Edgar the voodoo priest and Juste, a Haitian Rasta from Brooklyn go in search of the few remaining creole pigs rumored to have survived the killing.