Haitian history is presented through an explosion of colour, dance and music, as the country prepares for its legendary carnival.
Cinematography
Every frame drips with color — carnival as living, breathing art.
Score
Rara music that thumps through your chest like a second heartbeat.
Director
Eddie Hutton-Mills
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Directors Gordon and Hutton-Mills spent over a decade embedded in Jacmel's carnival, earning trust to film sacred rara ceremonies usually closed to outsiders.
The 'kanaval' tradition deliberately inverts colonial power structures — enslaved people were forbidden drums, so carnival became annual ritual of forbidden sound.
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