What Happens to a Dream Deferred

It’s New Year’s Eve in Tijuana, Mexico. Wood and Colonel are busy making Soup Joumou to celebrate Haitian Independence Day with their friends at the “Trap House”. As their cooking progresses, memories of the perilous journey that brought them to the US/Mexico border two years ago resurface. From Haiti to Brasil and through nine other South and Central-American countries, here they are, sandwiched between their dream of a musical career in the US and a US president who calls Haiti a shit hole and believes all Haitians have AIDS.

Film Maker
Mondesir, Esery
Year
2020
Country
Canada
Length
24
Language
English
Category
(De)colonization, Abstraction, Activism + Protest, America, Anthropology, art & artists, Black
Genre
documentary, experimental

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