DES RÊVES EN BATEAUX PAPIERS – DREAMS LIKE PAPER BOATS
Samuel Frantz Suffren | Haiti 2024 | 18 Min. | Creole Hawaiian with english Subtitles
Austrian Premiere
FRIDAY, 09.05. | 5 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
Part of the Short Film Program IN FOCUS: HAUNTINGS
In DES RÊVES EN BATEAUX PAPIERS, director Samuel Suffren explores the emotional complexities of separation and longing. Edouard and his daughter Zara have lived alone in Port-au-Prince since his wife emigrated to the United States five years ago, leaving behind only a single cassette recording. This relic becomes their tenuous link to her, embodying both her love and the vast distance between them. An unexpected reunion forces Edouard to confront deep questions about love, absence, and the enduring ties that bind a family across time and space. Suffren’s poignant narrative pushes the boundaries of documentary forms in this deeply autobiographical film that fuses real life footage with lay actors to tell its story.
Director: Samuel Suffren
Camera: Phalonne Pierre Louis
Editing: Samuel Suffren
Sound: Pablo Dali Bonnely
Production: KIT Films: Samuel Suffren
AWARDS & SCREENINGS (SELECTION)
Sundance Film Festival, United States (18 – 28 January, 2024) Short Film Competition
Ismailia IFF for Documentaries and Short Films, Egypt (28 February – 5 March, 2024) Short Films Competition
Nouveaux Regards Film Festival, Guadeloupe (20 – 24 March, 2024 )Carribean Look Competition
Glasgow Short Film Festival, Scotland (20 – 24 March, 2024) International Competition
REGARD – Festival international du court métrage au Saguenay, Canada (20 – 24 March, 2024) Competition Special Mention
Martovski – Belgrade Documentary And Short Film Festival, Serbia (26 – 30 March, 2024) International Competition
BIOGRAPHY
Samuel Suffren is a Haitian director and producer. He’s working on a short film trilogy about the American dream in Haiti. The first film Agwe was selected at Locarno and won the best diaspora film at FESPACO 2023. Des rêves en bateaux papiers is the second film. His feature documentary in development, Lòtbò, addresses the exile of his family in the United States and Canada. Je m’appelle Nina Shakira, selected at Open Doors Lab in Locarno, is his first fiction feature in development.
