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Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Monica Sorelle Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Atibon Nazaire, Bechir Sylvain, Chris Renois, Karina Bonnefil, Sheila Anozier
In Miami’s Little Haiti, Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) makes a living as a demolition worker while his wife Esperance (Sheila Anozier) holds down two jobs to sustain their cozy household. Their routine is tested when their son Junior (Chris Renois) returns home after dropping out of college. Xavier and Esperance struggle to relate
with Junior, who is no longer interested in speaking Creole with them and harbors ambitions of an artistic career path they do not understand. Xavier aspires to buy a more spacious house for his family, but still wakes up every morning, goes to work, and dismantles his neighborhood brick by brick. Yet even as construction vehicles rumble down the block, Little Haiti remains a vibrant community with traditions and rhythms distinctly its own. Monica Sorelle’s tender feature debut is a multigenerational drama that deftly explores the relationships between immigrants and their children, the looming threat of gentrification, and he pursuit of the American dream.
A quietly moving proclamation of presence… the way Sorelle thinks of gentrification rewards our close attention. –The Hollywood Reporter
This slice-of-life story is a testament to the power of cinema itself. –Collider