A German-Haitian printmaker arrives in Port-au-Prince to teach a lithography workshop and to quietly excavate the secret her mother has kept buried for fifty-five years. What she finds instead are the spirits of seven girls murdered in a 1970 ritual, whose unfinished reckoning is consuming the city from within.

 

Writer / Director Guetty Felin is a transnational filmmaker working between Europe, the U.S., and the Caribbean. Her debut feature Ayiti Mon Amour the first film shot entirely in Haiti by a female director and Haiti’s first Oscar submission for International Feature Film (2018) established her as a pioneering voice in Haitian cinema. Her work spans fiction and documentary, including Broken Stones, a film on the Obama campaign, and a portrait of jazz musician Hal Singer. Kommuniontag is her second narrative feature.