Kafe Negro: Cuba & the Haitian Revolution and Looking for Life trace the lasting impact of Haiti’s quest for freedom—from the revolution that reshaped the Caribbean to the resilience of Haitian women navigating the realities of globalization.

* Kafe Negro: Cuba and the Haitian Revolution A compelling exploration of how the Haitian Revolution reshaped Cuba’s social, economic, and cultural landscape.

* Looking for Life In Port-au-Prince, two women’s daily exchange of food and credit reveals the fragile bonds of survival in an economy shaped by powerful global forces.

Kafe Negro: Cuba & The Haitian Revolution is a film that explores the social, economic & historical ramification of the Haitian Revolution on Cuba.

Kafe Negro tells the story of migrations around a small grain that became the second most important raw material on the global market. This film tells the story of the waves of migration of Haitian workers who, over time, profoundly transformed the culture and demographics of Cuba and developed coffee growing on the island.

Directed by Mario Delatour, 2020, Cuba & Haiti, 52min, Documentary, French and Spanish with English subtitles

LOOKING FOR LIFE

LOOKING FOR LIFE introduces the viewer to two women, Anne-Rose and Rosemene, who each one has their own particular way of battling through life. The former makes lunches in a  factory yard in Port-au-Prince and sells her meals to the factory workers on credit; the latter is employed in the same factory as a production worker making pullovers and T-shirts.
By Claudette Coulanges, 1999, Haiti/Germany, Documentary, 60min, Haitian Creole w/ English subtitles.