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Documentaries and social cinema exhibition
6th edition | 2-14 october 2012
Haiti, land of hope
Asier Reino | 2012 | Haiti/Spain | 54’
This documentary is based on a journalist’s personal experience and the terrible violence he witnesses during a trip to Haiti in 2004. After this shocking experience he decides to erase this country from his memory and he vows never to come back there. However seven years after this first and terrible foray he goes back to Haiti. The situation after the 2010 earthquake is tragic. But the quake, which had destroyed many things, may has helped in raising many others.
Asier Reino, born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1973, since 2004 takes part in different documentary projects, among which Laha, a movie based on the life of a Saharawi woman, written and directed by Joxe Lasa. In 2011 he directs the short Give me a water minute, rewarded in the festival of DDHH shorts of Valencia. In 2012 he realizes his first documentary Haiti, land of hope.