Five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola has joined Freda — the Haitian Oscar entry marking the narrative feature debut of actor, singer and documentarian Gessica Généus — as an executive producer.

Gessica Généus discusses Freda, the first movie by a female Haitian director to be nominated for an award at Cannes. Director Gessica Geneus attends the Freda photocall during the 74th annual Cannes ...

The Haitian film ‘Freda’ is hoping to be a serious contender in the Academy Awards’ International Feature Film category. Among its backers is five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola. Courtesy of ...

Personal and political life in Haiti are brought sharply into focus in “Freda,” a powerful and resolutely unsentimental drama about a determined young university student who must decide whether to ...

When your homeland slides into chaos do you stay or do you flee? That is the dilemma facing the title character in Gessica Geneus’ Creole-language debut feature Freda. The story of a young woman’s ...

The making of Freda, the narrative feature debut of actor, singer and documentarian Gessica Généus, shot between lockdowns in the endlessly troubled streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was “like a ...

Princeton French Film Festival - Screening of « Freda » by Gessica Généus starting at 7:00 pm. In Haitian Creole and French, with English subtitles. Followed by a discussion and Q&A with the film’s ...

There are times in Cannes when the turmoil of the outside world brings added relevance and urgency to a film, bursting the bubble of glamour and celebrity-swooning. It happened five years ago with ...

The crime caper and satirical dark comedy “Kidnapping Inc.” opens during a bathroom break at the side of a desolate Port-au-Prince mountain and a hostage locked in the trunk of a dilapidated car. Doc ...

Art sadly imitates life as the long-awaited Haitian action-comedy Kidnapping Inc. finally hits the big screen four years after tragic events during filming. Director/co-writer Bruno Mourral satirizes ...

A Somali film exploring what people will do for love has won the grand prize at the prestigious pan-African film festival in Burkina Faso. The Gravedigger's Wife, written and directed by Finish-Somali ...

Personal and political life in Haiti are brought sharply into focus in “Freda,” a powerful and resolutely unsentimental drama about a determined young university student who must decide whether to ...