Stemming from her personal experience, her close ones' testimonies and surprising encounters, Gessica Geneus, Haitian filmmaker questions the "disease of the soul" devouring her native island.

What is this "illness of the soul" that is slowly killing the Haitian people? Through this film, I seek to understand the form of cultural bipolarity expressed mainly through our spirituality by relying on my personal journey, marked by the mental illness of my mother. A disease which she believes is a curse of voodoo spirits.

A film by Gessica GÉNÉUS

starring Gessica Généus

Haiti / France, 2017, documentary, 52 minutes

Themes:
Cultural Identity / Haiti / Wealth / Island / Self-portrait

Year: 2017
Type: Documentary
Genre: Society / Self-portrait
Duration: 52'

Executive Producer: Jean-Marie Gigon (SaNoSi)

Co-producers:
Gessica Généus (Ayizan Production)
Rachèle Magloire (Productions Fanal)

Director:
Gessica Généus

Screenwriter:
Gessica Généus

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Marco Saint-Juste, Katerine Giguère

SOUND
François Waledisch, Rachèle Magloire

EDITING
Adrien Faucheux

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Manno Charlemagne

PRODUCTION
SaNoSi Productions
Productions Fanal
Ayizan Productions
France Télévisions (Martinique 1ère)

with the support of
La fondation Fokal
Ciclic-région Centre-Val de Loire
CNC
France Télévisions - Martinique la 1ère

AWARDS
- Best screenplay award at the Documentary Workshop led by Anne Aghion for the
FOKAL Foundation (Knowledge and Freedom Foundation)
- Best documentary - Saint-Louis' Festival, Sénégal
- Best documentary - Rencontres cinématographiques de Martinique (France)
- Best documentary - Festival Monde en Vue, Guadeloupe (France)
- Best documentary - Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphie (USA)
- Jury's price and Audience award : Festival des Films Insulaire, Ile-de-Groix
(France)
- Clef d'Or (Golden key) - Festival Psy de Lorquin (France)

FESTIVALS
1. États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas (France), août 2017
2. Festival du documentaire de Saint-Louis du Sénégal (Sénégal), décembre 2017.
3. Geneva International Independent Film Festival -Black Movie, Genève (Suisse), janvier 2018.
4. Festival Rencontres Cinémas Martinique, mars 2018.
5. Festival Vues d'Afrique, Montréal (Canada), avril 2018
6. Festival du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel Festicab, Bujumbura (Burundi), mai 2018
7. Festival international de films de femmes de Yaoundé (Cameroun), juin 2018
8. Festival PSY de Lorquin (France), juin 2018.
9. BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphie (USA), août 2018.
10. Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême (France), août 2018
11. Festival du film insulaire de Groix - FIFIG (France), août 2018.
12. Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami (USA), septembre 2018
13. Festival Monde en vue (ex-festival des droits de l'homme), Guadeloupe, octobre 2018.
14. Astra Film Festival, Sibiu (Roumanie), octobre 2018
15. Festival VisuElles, Ottawa (Canada), octobre 2018
16. Festival des Identités Culturelles, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), novembre 2018
17. Rencontres Images Mentales, Bruxelles (Belgique), février 2019
18. Festival CineLatino (hors compétition), Toulouse (France), mars 2019
19. Caribbean Film Series Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York (USA), mars 2019
20. Black Women's Film Conference, MoMa, New York (USA), mars 2019
21. Festival International du Film Documentaire Millenium, Bruxelles (Belgique), mars 2019
22. DC Caribbean Film Fest 2019, Silver Spring (USA), June 2019
23. Third Horizon Film Festival, Los Angeles (USA), July 2019
24. Remix: The Black Experience in Film, Media and Art, Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville (USA), August 2019
25. Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival 2019, (Trinidad & Tobago), August 2019
26. Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival, Cleveland (USA), September 2019
27. South programme of innovative cinema, South London Gallery, Londres (UK), Ictober 2019
28. Festival International du Film Documentaire Amazonie Caraïbe, Compétition, St Laurent du Maroni (French Guiana), October 2019.

TV Broadcast
Martinique 1ère (France Télévisions)