Reel Unity Pair: Haiti Speaks / The Older You Get

2020 BIBFF

7th Annual Baltimore International Black Film Festival - Teaser

Haiti Speaks

Haiti Speaks follows a team of doctors from The Gift of Sight, an American non-profit that takes an annual medical mission trip to Haiti, to document their work operating on hundreds of patients in the span of a week. This trip, however, is different. It comes just 100 days after “The Event”, the 7.0 earthquake that wiped out so much of the nation and its people in 2010. Now everyone has a story to tell. The Event has touched everyone and left them to consider what the future of Haiti may be.

Over the course of 5 thematic chapters featuring excerpts from acclaimed Haitian writers, the film weaves between the capital Port-au-Prince and the rural community of Lascahobas; Haitians from all walks of life, including leading journalist and historian Georges Michel, Monsignor Pierre of the Catholic Church of Haiti, doctors, and students, speak on the issues affecting the state of their union: health care, education, economics, foreign relations, and the earthquake. Visual vignettes capture the feeling of standing on Haiti’s shores, swimming in its lakes, trudging through its mountainous forests, and drifting through the dusty, rubble filled city streets, as the people take the audience through their own stories intertwined with the one of their beloved country.

The Older You Get

Two friends reunite over the death of their childhood dog but realize more is at stake than saying goodbye.