• Director(s)

    EDDIE HUTTON MILLS, LEAH GORDON

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Release date

    11/11/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    76m

Film

Kanaval: A People’s History Of Haiti In Six Chapters

references to racism

KANAVAL: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF HAITI IN SIX CHAPTERS is a Haitian-British documentary film which explores the history of the Caribbean nation through the lens of its annual carnival. …

KANAVAL: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF HAITI IN SIX CHAPTERS is a Haitian-British documentary film which explores the history of the Caribbean nation through the lens of its annual carnival.

discrimination
There are frequent references to historical racism and slavery, which are clearly criticised. Black-and-white reenactments show enslaved adults and children being manhandled and inspected by white slave traders, and being forced to march along in chains while slavers brandish whips nearby. There is also black-and-white footage of real Haitian people being subjected to forced labour during the 1915–34 US occupation of Haiti. There are brief verbal references to the Indigenous population of Haiti having been massacred by European colonists. In another segment, scenes from the 1936 film OUANGA are used to illustrate stereotypical depictions of Haitian Vodou practitioners as sinister and malevolent.
additional issues
There is occasional mild violence, without visible injuries. For example, archive footage of the 1985-6 protests against the regime of former President Jean-Claude Duvalier contains undetailed sight of rioting and of a police officer striking at people with a stick. A reenactment of the Haitian Revolution, depicted in black-and-white, shows people firing guns and storming a building. Footage of carnival processions contains feigned acts of whipping, and other scenes feature non-graphic verbal references to massacres, torture and executions. There is infrequent mild bad language (e.g. ‘shit’, ‘ass’, ‘butt’).

  • Director(s)

    EDDIE HUTTON MILLS, LEAH GORDON

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Release date

    11/11/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    76m

references to racism
Classified Date:
04/11/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Dartmouth Films LTD
discrimination
There are frequent references to historical racism and slavery, which are clearly criticised. Black-and-white reenactments show enslaved adults and children being manhandled and inspected by white slave traders, and being forced to march along in chains while slavers brandish whips nearby. There is also black-and-white footage of real Haitian people being subjected to forced labour during the 1915–34 US occupation of Haiti. There are brief verbal references to the Indigenous population of Haiti having been massacred by European colonists. In another segment, scenes from the 1936 film OUANGA are used to illustrate stereotypical depictions of Haitian Vodou practitioners as sinister and malevolent.
additional issues
There is occasional mild violence, without visible injuries. For example, archive footage of the 1985-6 protests against the regime of former President Jean-Claude Duvalier contains undetailed sight of rioting and of a police officer striking at people with a stick. A reenactment of the Haitian Revolution, depicted in black-and-white, shows people firing guns and storming a building. Footage of carnival processions contains feigned acts of whipping, and other scenes feature non-graphic verbal references to massacres, torture and executions. There is infrequent mild bad language (e.g. ‘shit’, ‘ass’, ‘butt’).

  • Classified date

    04/11/2022

  • Language

    Haitian Creole