AGWE
François leaves Haiti by sailboat for the United States, leaving behind his wife, Mirlande, who is six months pregnant. She has to wait ten days for news of her husband. And now, ten years later, still without news, the woman who is still waiting offers a sacrifice to Agwe, the deity of the oceans.
DIRECTION & PRODUCTION Samuel Suffren PRODUCTION COMPANY KITFILMS CINEMATOGRAPHY Phalonne Pierre Louis SCREENPLAY & EDITING Samuel Suffren SOUNDTRACK Roodie Rigaud Marcelin MUSIC Erol Josué, Kaloune CAST Fabiola Remy, Mackenson Bijou, Jean Ophelson Milhomme, Etienne Saint-Fleur
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Locarno Film Festival – Open Doors
FESPACO (Paul Robeson Prize)
Toronto International Black Film Festival
Third Horizon Film Festival
Cinélatino – Rencontres de Toulouse
FILMAR en América Latina
IV Festival de Cine Instar
Samuel Suffren
Haitian director and producer. He has directed several short films selected and awarded at multiple international festivals. His most recent short film, “Agwe”, participated in the official selection of the 75th Locarno Film Festival and in the Clermont Ferrand film market. Samuel is currently preparing the feature-length documentary “Lòtbò”, about the emigration of Haitians to the United States in 1980 and the fantasy of the American dream. Samuel is president of the KIT association, a collective of Haitian photographers and filmmakers based in Port-au-Prince.
