As Cinema Tropical Share, Monica Sorrell mountain (USA, 2023, 95 minutes; in Haitian, English, Spanish, with English subtitles) will be released in select US theaters on August 16. The film stars Ativong Nazaire, Sheila Anozier, and Chris Lenoir.
Description: In Miami’s Little Haiti, Xavier makes a living as a demolition worker while his wife Esperance works two jobs to maintain a comfortable home. Their daily lives are tested when their son Junior drops out of college and returns home. Xavier and Esperance struggle to get along with Junior, who has no interest in speaking Creole with them and has ambitions of becoming an artist that they don’t understand. Xavier wants to buy a bigger house for his family, but he still gets up every morning and goes to work, tearing down his neighborhood, brick by brick. Even as construction vehicles rumble around the blocks, Little Haiti remains a vibrant community with its own traditions and rhythms.
Haitian-American director Monica Sorel’s heartwarming feature debut is a deft, multigenerational drama about the relationships between immigrants and their children, the looming threat of gentrification, and the pursuit of the American Dream.
Monica Sorrell is a Miami-born and Miami-based Haitian-American filmmaker and artist. Her work explores marginalization and displacement in Miami and the Caribbean, focusing on African-American and Latino immigrants there and preserving their cultural traditions.
For more information about the film, https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/mountains/
For more information about the director, https://monicasorelle.com/
See also https://www.cinematropical.com/
