INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
Dreams Like Paper Boats
Directors
Samuel Suffren
Producers
Samuel Suffren
Cinematographers
Phalonne Pierre Louis
Editors
Samuel Suffren
Sound
Pablo Dali Bonnelly
Official Film Website
Contact
Square Eyes
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2024
Haiti
19 min
Color
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?
Director
Samuel Suffren is a Haitian director and producer. He’s 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 at FESPACO 2023. Des rêves en bateaux papiers is the second film. 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 Lab in Locarno, is his first fiction feature in development.
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