Film

This subtle study of cultural identity follows a graceful young woman of Haitian descent who works as a fashion model and actress in Paris.

A documentary about the choreographer and dance teacher Vivianne Gauthier, a unique, strong, disciplined, and energetic woman who led her life in Haiti as she pleased. This overview of her life visits her home, a “gingerbread house” where every nook is full of trinkets and memories.

A restless girl meets a spirit who gives her pure water. Her family devours the delicious water until they begin to suspect more than the origin of its taste. This traditional folktale is retold featuring a cast of nonactors from three generations of a single family.

In this documentary set in the South Kivu region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Furaha and Venantie have experienced horrific sexual terrorism by the FDLR militia. Yet in each other, they find the strength to make a change and tell their story, devoid of societal pressures, which eventually empowers others in their community to rewrite their future.

Solo is Malagasy, a homosexual living in Paris. In order to fulfill the last wishes of his late partner, he returns to Madagascar to meet his estranged in-laws.

In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman living abroad. Nafisa’s grandmother Al-Sit, the powerful village matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa's future. But can Nafisa choose for herself?