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Dreams like paper boats
Samuel Suffren
Synopsis
Edouard has been living in Port-au-Prince with just his daughter Zara for five years. Since his wife left, his daughter and him have only received a cassette from her, and that was a long time ago. After years of absence, what can we expect from a distant love?
Programming
October 28th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 29th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 30th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 31st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 1st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 2nd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 2nd
Barcelona/ Zumzeig Cinema/ C/ de Béjar, 53, 08014 Barcelona, Spain
21:45 (GMT+2)
November 3rd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
About the film
Production:
Samuel Suffren
Genre:
Fiction
Languages:
Haitian Creole
Production Companies:
KIT Films
Cinematography:
Phalonne Pierre Louis
Screenplay:
Samuel Suffren
Editing:
Samuel Suffren
Sound Design:
Pablo Dali Bonnely
Music:
Daniel Larivière, Chorale Les Théophiles
Cast:
Kenny Laguerre, Zaraina Ruth-Amma Suffren, Clorette Jacinthe
Festival Track:
Sundance Film Festival; REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival (Special Mention for the Jury); Filmfest Dresden (Honorable Mention of the Film Critics’ Jury); Palm Springs International ShortFest; Leiden Shorts; Riga International Short Film Festival; Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca; Glasgow Film Festival; Festival Internacional de Cine de Guanajuato (Special Mention ); Third Horizon Film Festival.
About the director
Samuel Suffren
Samuel Suffren is a Haitian film director and producer. He’s currently working on a short film trilogy about the American dream in Haiti. The first film, Agwe, was selected at Locarno and won the Best Diaspora Film Award at FESPACO, 2023. Dreams like paper boats is the second film of the trilogy. His feature documentary in development, Lòtbò, addresses the exile of his family in the United States and Canada. Je m’appelle Nina Shakira, selected at Open Doors Producers Lab in Locarno, is his first fiction feature in development.
