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For the wandering souls. The best way we can carry on is by dancing to the music in our hearts. Three character stories combine in the sea, sunsets, ghosts, reefs, people, poetry and dreamy daily life of Haiti.

While the film moves at a measured pace, there is a grace in it that is not covered by the mainstream media. It is refreshing and intriguing to enter a circle of fishermen on the beach who are discussing the future of the ocean and to be in the middle of a graveyard without any names on the tombstones. Why are there no names? "We are all one family," said someone nearby, unscripted, who just happened to be caught on film. The film contains more of such magical moments, yet I wish there was more depth to other discussions. Seen at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

Sometimes people think they have created something that is so insightful, or a significant contribution. This is an example of misplaced congratulations - the product is weak and over worked.

Sorry to inform those that thought it worth multiple stars, it ain't!!

I attended a screening of AYITI MON AMOUR with my 7 year old daughter and 10 year old son, who have yet to visit our family's ancestral homeland. They enjoyed it and it filled my heart to see both the reality and beauty of Haiti represented in the film. There is an indelible, potent connection between a country and her children and AYITI MON AMOUR is a testament to this. Writer/director Guetty Felin captures the essence of Haiti through her personal interpretation of Italian neorealism to produce a cinematic love letter to our often misunderstood and misrepresented homeland.

The pace of the film is deliberate and unrushed and the audience is rewarded with dreamy imagery that depicts simple vignettes of the characters' lives. A unique film by a talented filmmaker with a voice all her own.

Ayiti Mon Amour This is no ordinary film. Dream-like and beautifully shot in the fishing hamlet of Kabic, director Guetty Felin's magic realist tale of post-earthquake Haiti unfolds delicately, an allegorical love poem to her homeland. Executive produced by Mira Nair, this 2017 release was Haiti's first submission for the foreign language Oscar. Felin tells three overlapping stories with equal skill. Teenaged Orphée (Joakim Cohen) knows that he is different, and he soon discovers a remarkable-and literally shocking-superpower that may put an end to his alienation. In the second tale, an old fisherman Jaures (Jaures Andris) turns to the sea in order to cure his wife Odessa's (Judith Jeudy) illness. She is his entire world, so the stakes couldn't be higher. And finally, in a nod to Borges perhaps, a lazy writer (James Noel) learns the full consequences of his literary torpor as his main character and muse Ama (Anisia Uzeyman) decides to physically escape from the book itself. The film opens with a quote from Aimé Césaire's French-language poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal which was a literary call-to-arms for his native Martinique to rid itself of the psychological scars of colonial rule. For the US-based Felin the film is a return as well, a poignant look at a country ravished not just by French colonialism, but also by native-born dictators like Papa Doc Duvalier, as well as by the devastating earthquake of 2010. Felin ultimately suggests that like Ama Haiti may also be determined to emerge from a difficult past, ready to write its own story, on its own terms.