Mountains (2024)
Director: Monica Sorelle Run Time: 95 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024
Starring: Atibon Nazaire, Bechir Sylvain, Chris Renois, Karina Bonnefil, Sheila Anozier
Country: United States
Languages: Haitian Creole, English, Spanish
About the film:
World Premiere, Tribeca Film Festival 2023.
In Miami’s Little Haiti, Xavier makes a living as a demolition worker while his wife Esperance holds down two jobs to sustain their cozy household. Their routine is tested when their son Junior 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 the pursuit of the American dream.
“Sorelle approaches the story of a Haitian family confronting gentrification with a delicate and discerning eye.”
—Lovia Gyarkye, Hollywood Reporter
About the filmmaker:
Monica Sorelle is a Haitian-American filmmaker and artist born & based in Miami. Her work explores alienation and displacement, and preserves cultural traditions within Miami & the Caribbean with a focus on the African & Latin diasporas that reside there. Monica’s feature directorial debut, Mountains (2024), had its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival, where it was awarded a Special Jury Mention in the U.S. Narrative Feature competition. Mountains later had its international premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards, with Monica receiving the Someone to Watch Award.
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