Movies: Feguenson Hermogène

Nadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to speak in other languages. On that day, Haiti never seemed so far from Nadia....

Ritual dances, incantations and fetishes in an associative sequence of mystical scenes reveal the roots of the Afro-Cuban minority in Bauta, Cuba, whose colonial past is guarded by a statue of a slave in chains. Tobacco smoke and magical ceremonies a...

A short film about the director’s relationship with sewing, a craft he knew from a very young age thanks to his seamstress mother....

To break a spell, Maya invokes the spirit of Ayo: a former love who is turning into an egum, to help her create a Patuá, a Yoruba spiritual protection amulet. Together they invoke their ancestors, thus allowing Maya to continue with her life, while A...