Dreams Like Paper Boats

Dreams Like Paper Boats

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

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