Lourdes Portillo is a filmmaker of undoubted importance for Latin American nonfiction cinema. Her lucid filmography oscillates between documentary, experimental film and video art. Astutely inscribing herself to the genealogy of Third Cinema, she…
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…
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, based on anti-black hatred fomented by the Dominican government. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped…