Das Erdbeben in Haitis Hauptstadt Port-au-Prince, im Januar 2010, hat weite Teile der Stadt in ein Trümmerfeld verwandelt. Auch die Villa eines im Nobelviertel Pacot lebenden Ehepaares ist zerstört. In der Ruine versuchen sie ihren Alltag neu zu organisieren und vermieten den verschonten Teil des Hauses an Alex, einen europäischen NGO-Katastrophenhelfer. Als seine junge haitianische Geliebte Andrémise einzieht, spitzt sich die Situation zwischen den beiden ungleichen Paaren drastisch zu.
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages...
Der haitianische Regisseur Raoul Peck lässt seine Ehefrau Sarah über ihre Kindheit in den 1960er Jahren nachdenken, die von staatlicher Repression und Angst geprägt war.
In the midst of increasing political violence, a young couple, two sisters, and a father and son are driven from Haiti to New York, where they must confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.
Freda lives with her mother, sister and little brother in a popular neighbourhood of Haiti. They survive with their little street food shop. The precariousness and violence of their daily life pushes them to do everything they can to escape their situation in the hope of finding a better life.
On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, most of which ends up in US kitchens. Cutting cane by machete, they work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare or adequate nutrition. The Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging the powerful interests profiting from their work. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what human cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies.
A woman struggles to free her husband after he's kidnapped and trapped in a prison cell.
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