Dreams Like Paper Boats
TITLE
Dreams Like Paper Boats
DIRECTOR
Samuel Suffren
COUNTRY
Haiti
YEAR
2024
DURATION
19′
GENRE
Live action
Dreams Like Paper Boats
Edouard has been living in Port-au-Prince with just his daughter Zara for five years. Since his wife left, his daughter and him have only received a cassette from her, and that was a long time ago. After years of absence, what can we expect from a distant love?
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Samuel Suffren
Samuel Suffren is a Haitian director and producer. He’s working on a short film trilogy. The first film Agwe was selected at Locarno and won the best diaspora film at FESPACO. Des rêves en bateaux papiers is the second. He’s developing a feature documentary Lòtbò and his first fiction feature Je m’appelle Nina Shakira.
- DirectorSamuel Suffren
- ScreenplaySamuel Suffren
- CinematographyPhalonne Pierre Louis
- CastKenny Laguerre, Zaraina Ruth-Amma Suffren, Clorette Jacinthe
- Editing Samuel Suffren
- Producer/s Samuel Suffren
- Production Company
- Distributor/sSquare Eyes
- Project TitleDreams Like Paper Boats
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date 1 January 2024
- Country of originHaiti
- Country of filmingHaiti
- LanguageHaitian Creole
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Samuel Suffren
Samuel Suffren is a Haitian director and producer. He’s working on a short film trilogy. The first film Agwe was selected at Locarno and won the best diaspora film at FESPACO. Des rêves en bateaux papiers is the second. He’s developing a feature documentary Lòtbò and his first fiction feature Je m’appelle Nina Shakira.
