Haiti/France, 2008, 35 mm, 90’ (Italian premiere)

Director: Michelange Quay
Actors: Sylvie Testud, Catherine Samie, Hans Dacosta Saint-Val, Jean Noël Pierre
Editing: Jean-Marie Lengelle
Production: Les Films à un Dollar, Union Films

Synopsis
A visceral, hypnotic trip that will take us to the spiritual core of the suffering of Haiti. Madame has come to feed the starving black masses and they have come to be fed. This hunger, this desire will bring Madame out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, smell the reality of their suffering, the reality of her own body. She will at last touch, and be touched.

Biofilmography
Born 1974. In 1997, he earned a Master Degree in Film Directing of the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, at New York University, NYC, USA. In 2002, he was chosen for Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation Residence for Directors, in Paris, France. It was here where he began writing the script for EAT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY. In 2004, he directs THE GOSPEL OF THE CREOLE PIG. A short-film in 35mm which was presented in the Official Selection in the Cannes Film Festival 2004, and won Best Short Film at Locarno, Stockholm, Potenza, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Turin and Tokyo Con Can Film Festival.