The Tragedy of King Christophe

The Man by the Shore

August 1993 •Haitian

Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.

Lek ej med kärleken

November 1961 •Swedish

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.

Misantropen

January 1963 •Swedish

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.

Between Hamburg and Haiti

November 1940 •German

A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In search of her, he finds her in Mexico as the secretary of his former lover, a writer.

Heading South

January 2006 •French

A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.

Elena

June 2021 •Spanish

In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, on the basis of anti-black racism. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic's Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929, rendering more than 200,000 people stateless. Elena, the young protagonist of the film, and her family stand to lose their legal residency in the Dominican Republic if they don't manage to get their documents in time. Negotiating a mountain of opaque bureaucratic processes and a racist, hostile society around, Elena becomes the face of the struggle to remain in a country built on the labor of her father and forefathers.

La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

January 1965 •French

Murder in Pacot

September 2014 •French

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.

Lydia Bailey

May 1952 •English

A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.

Revisorn

December 1990 •Swedish

When the people of a small corrupt town find out a secret inspector will be arriving shortly they panic, something which a lazy civil servant takes full advantage of and lets them believe that he is that inspector.

Midsommardröm i fattighuset

December 1980 •Swedish

Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.

Kamraterna

October 1982 •Swedish

Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the topic of gender equality in marriage and society, for example the property rights of married women.

Stängda dörrar

November 1981 •Swedish

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.

Ett Dockhem

December 1970 •Swedish

Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.

Han som fick leva om sitt liv

December 1987 •Swedish

The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes.

Från regnormarnas liv

February 1998 •Swedish

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.

Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance

April 2025 •French

Seco

June 2025 •Portuguese

After finishing his will, hours before his death, a widowed former soldier realizes he cannot remember the last time he cried. To find his tears, he will stir his emotions by chasing buried gestures and feelings.

Kams - tokerier från Ådalen

May 1985 •Swedish

Jonas has to stay at home on the farm and look after his seven younger siblings, because stepfather and stepmother are going to a wedding with eldest daughter Anna. But Jonas is curious about how the party goes and when it might be his turn to get married.

Stateless

September 2020 •English

Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the grassroots electoral campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris.