Haitian Mother's Day Movie

Li Se Manman-m Movie Poster

Li Se Manman-m stars Smith Cassamajor, Suze Alexandre, Guerda L. Jacques, and Wilson A. Rodriguez.

In this new movie, Li Se Manman-m, you will be taken through a journey of a mother and father, desperate for a better life for their kids, who decide to leave the country side bound for Port-au-Prince.

There, they land in Cite Soleil, the biggest slum in the Haitian capital. The father (Smith Cassamajor) spends his life washing cars and pushing a Haitian wheelbarrow to make ends meet. The mother (Suze Alexandre) walks the streets of Port-au-Prince as a "Ti Machann" only to be humiliated and forgotten by their only son who is so obsessed with "being a super star" and keeping up they the upper class that he vows never to let anybody know who he really is or where he is from.

It is common practice for young Haitians in Haiti with low self-esteem to completely dismiss who they are and where they come from as soon as they become a "Philosophe", in order to belong, in order to suck up to the upper class.

A philosophe is the equivalent of a High School graduate in the United States but when they talk about it in Haiti, one would think that every philosophe is Albert Einstein.

This mother's day, if you live in the Boston area go and watch "Li Se Manman-m".

You can see all the 200+ pictures taken at the Li Se Manman-m grand premiere here. Filmmaker Godnel Latus is the producer of Li Se Manman-m. He is in Boston and you will have an opportunity to meet him face to face tonight

Pop Quiz: Can you give me a list of Haitian movies you think is appropriate for Mother's day?

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