Film, in-person Q&A with filmmaker Rachelle Salnave, and reception in celebration of Haitian Heritage Month
In Partnership with Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU and Ayiti Images
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’d 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 restores the right to Haitian nationality for those who had lost it.
But the process is far from simple: Edouard, a proud New York Republican who hasn’t set foot in Haiti in more than 50 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.
Dual Citizen is both a father-daughter road trip and a meditation on what it means to carry more than one national identity—legally, emotionally, and across generations.
