Date: Monday, May 18th
Community Recognition: Haitian Heritage Month
The Broward County Film Society and LBV Films presents the locally produced documentary “Dual Citizen”. The film is a personal voyage of filmmaker Rachelle Salnave and her father’s quest for for their Haitian citizenship. The film won the Louies Award, an initiative of the Miami Film Festival.
Prior to the film at 6pm – Music and samplings of Haitian cuisine.
About the film (7pm) – DUAL CITIZEN is 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 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 allows dual nationality. But the process is far from simple: Edouard, a proud New York Republican who hasn’t set foot in Haiti in over fifty 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.
What unfolds is an intimate, often humorous exploration of family, identity, and the contradictions of belonging. Blending vérité, personal narration, and experimental touches, DUAL CITIZEN is both a father–daughter road trip and a meditation on what it means to hold two passports — and two very different ways of seeing the world.
After the film: Filmmaker Rachelle Salnave will discuss the making of the film.