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Film, reception and in-person Q&A with filmmaker Rachelle Salnave, in celebration of Haitian Heritage Month
A humorous and heartfelt documentary about one father’s reluctant effort to help his daughter reclaim her Haitian citizenship – even if it means confronting a past he thought he’d left behind. Filmmaker Rachelle Salnave embarks on a deeply personal journey with her father, Edouard, to test a 2012 amendment to Haiti’s Constitution that restores the right to Haitian nationality for those who had lost it.
But the process is far from simple: Edouard, a proud New York Republican who hasn’t set foot in Haiti in more than 50 years, must become Haitian again before his daughter can—forcing him to engage with a country and a government he’s kept at arm’s length since his family’s political exile in the 1960s.
Dual Citizen is both a father-daughter road trip and a meditation on what it means to carry more than one national identity—legally, emotionally, and across generations.
In Partnership with Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU and Ayiti Images
| Country: | U.S., Haiti |
| Release Year: | 2025 |
| Runtime: | 78 |
| Director: | Rachelle Salnave |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
| Language: | English, French, and Haitian Creole with English subtitles |
| Format: | DCP |
