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GHOSTS OF CITE SOLEIL
Asger Leth & Milos Loncarevic (Haiti/Denmark, 2006, 85 min.)
Documentary, World, Drama
Thursday, Oct. 4, 9:15 p.m., Student Union Theatre
Saturday, Oct. 6, 9:15 p.m., Grand Meridian Cinema
Sponsored by the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies and the African American, African, and African Diaspora Studies Program

This provocative, cinéma vérité documentary produced by Wyclef Jean gives an unprecedented close-up look at the chimères or ghosts. These gangs of gun-toting, doped-up, nothing-to-lose young men inhabit Haiti’s ultra-violent slum, Cité Soleil, which has been designated by the United Nations as the most dangerous place in the world. Tough and shocking, the Caribbean epic of family, love and violence is hauntingly intimate and, above all, truthful.

Festivals: Telluride Film Festival; Toronto Intl Film Festival; San Francisco Film Festival; Seattle Intl Film Festival, Jackson Hole Film Festival; Philadelphia Film Festival.

Web: http://www.ghostsofcitesoleil.com/ and http://www.ghoststhemovie.com/index.htm