Dreams Like Paper Boats
Haiti / Fiction / 19' / 4K / Color / 2024
Edouard has been living in Port-au-Prince with just his daughter Zara for five years. Since his wife left, his daughter and him have only received a cassette from her, and that was a long time ago. After years of absence, what can we expect from a distant love?
Director: Samuel Suffren
Script: Samuel Suffren
Director of Photography: Phalonne Pierre Louis
Producer: Samuel Suffren, Ruth Marcien
Music: Daniel Larivière, Chorale Les Théophiles
Editing: Samuel Suffren
Sound: Pablo Dali Bonnely, Roodie Rigaud Marcelin
Cast: Kenny Laguerre, Zaraina Ruth-Amma Suffren, Clorette Jacinthe
Biography
Samuel Suffren is a Haitian director and producer. He’s working on a short film trilogy about the American dream in Haiti. The first film Agwe was selected at Locarno and won the best diaspora film at FESPACO 2023. Des rêves en bateaux papiers is the second film. His feature documentary in development, Lòtbò, addresses the exile of his family in the United States and Canada. Je m’appelle Nina Shakira, selected at Open Doors Lab in Locarno, is his first fiction feature in development.
Filmography
Dreams like paper boats (Des rêves en bateaux papiers) (2023)
Agwe (2022)
Survivre (2019)
Awards
Best Film - Kyiv International Short Film Festival - 2024
Best Short Narrative - Nashville Film Festival - 2024
Best Short Film - Tirana International Film Festival - 2024