A Haiti, le Dr Jeudi Forstner est emprisonné pour meurtre. Sa femme, Marie Forstner, pense qu’il n’a pas commis le crime et se bat pour sa libération. Une plongée dans l’univers de la corruption.

Un film réalisé par Hugues Gentillon

avec Aurélia Khazan, Pierre-Louis Dieufaite, Leopold Jean, Deoud Gentillon

Haiti, 2014, fiction, 14 mins, Drame

Film de fin d’études, à la Academy of Art University (AAU), San Francisco, Californie, USA, 2013.

Le film a deux versions : une d’unrée de 14 minutes (soutenue devant la AAU School of Motion Pictures and Television, fin 2013) et une version de 9 minutes en salles.

Poster : Mario Calixte

Prod : Yugy Productions
http://lovemehaiti.yugy.com/

FESTIVALS / NOMINATION / SCREENINGS

Nepal: 1 May 2015 (Nepal Africa Film Festival)

India: March 2015 (Nashik international Film Festival)

France – 8 February 2014 (Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival)

France: 14-25 May 2014 (2-minute trailer screened before features in Cannes cinemas)

France: 21 May 2014 (Cannes Film Festival)

USA – 16 May 2014 (Epidemic Film Festival)

Tanzania: June 2014 (The Goethe-Institut)

Tanzania – 14 June 2014 (Zanzibar International Film Festival)
http://www.ziff.or.tz/2014/06/06/love-haiti/

Canada – 13 July 2014 (Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal)

USA – 13 September 2014 (Nollywood and African Film Critics’ Awards)

USA – 26 October 2014 (Motion Picture Association of Haïti)
* Winner for best fictional short film

Bahamas – 4 December 2014 (Bahamas International Film Festival)

Nepal – 1 May 2015 (Nepal Africa Film Festival)

In Haiti, Dr Jeudi Forstner is trapped in a prison cell for voluntary manslaughter. His wife, Marie Forstner, believes that he did not commit the crime. She fights for his freedom.

Directed by Hugues Gentillon,

featuring Aurélia Khazan, Pierre-Louis Dieufaite, Leopold Jean, Deoud Gentillon

Haiti, 2014, short narrative, 14 mins, Drama

MFA thesis @ the Academy of Art University (CA, USA)



Featuring Aurélia Khazan, Pierre-Louis Dieufaite, Leopold Jean, Deoud Gentillon

Haiti’s Academy Award’ winner for best fictional short film!

Poster made from painting by Mario Calixte

Love Me Haiti is Gentillon’s Master of Fine Art thesis at the Academy of Art University (AAU), located in San Francisco, California, USA.

The film has two versions: a 14-minute thesis version submitted to AAU School of Motion Pictures and Television in late 2013 and a 9-minute theatrical version completed in November 2014.