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Dominicans Love Haitians Movement Is Celebrating The Beauty Of Our Commonalities While Forging A Fut

Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is utilizing art to transform our racial narratives. As of this year Dominican Legislature passed TC-168-13 the law that renders as many as 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent stateless by denying certificates and identification cards. Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is a call to embrace our heritage and to be whole. It is looking at and redefining the racial

scheme created by imperialism that allowed for the suppression of other peoples. Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is forging a future to create freedom from tyranny.

11/05/2025

🌟 We’re honored to share some incredible news! 🌟

Our founder and Executive Director Clarivel Ruiz has been nominated for the 2025 Island Icons Award by — recognizing her work as a NYC Activist and Social Entrepreneur! 💫

The Island Icons Awards take place Thursday, November 6th in New York City, celebrating Caribbean innovators and community builders whose work transforms industries and uplifts our people during National Entrepreneurship Month.

Through Dominicans Love Haitians Movement, Clarivel continues to build spaces where art, love, and solidarity become tools for liberation — from the Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival to The Black Doll Project.

💛 “This nomination is not only an honor for me but a recognition of all those who believe that art, love, and solidarity are essential to liberation.” — Clarivel Ruiz

10/12/2025

Day 4 — We Won’t Be Stopped by the Rain!
Sunday, Oct 12 | 1–9 PM
📍 Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem

The storm can’t wash away our spirit. Healing takes water—and revolution grows from the soil of persistence. 🌱

Join us for the final day of the 3rd Annual NOU Film Festival, a day of reflection, remembrance, and action.

🎞 1 PM – Shorts Program 5: Presence – Hearing Others
Stories of empathy, courage, and connection across The Most Quiet Noise, Tabula Rasa, The Meteorites, and Reclaiming Success.

🎥 3:30 PM – Feature: 1964 – Simitye Kamoken
Survivors of Duvalier’s terror reclaim their voices through testimony and truth.

🕯 6:20 PM – Feature: Twice Into Oblivion
Revisiting the 1937 massacre through art, memory, and cross-island healing.

☀️ The rain may fall, but our stories rise.
🎟 www.dominicanslovehaitians.org

10/12/2025

What a night! 💫

Day 3 of the NOU Film Festival was nothing short of transformative. We gathered in Harlem at Maysles Documentary Center to honor filmmaker José María Cabral, director of La 42, with the Maroon Award — celebrating artistic courage, truth-telling, and creative resistance.

Joining us virtually, Cabral shared reflections on the spirit of La 42 — a film alive with rhythm, resilience, and the beauty of Dominican street culture. Together, we celebrated the power of film to heal, connect, and challenge the narratives that divide us.

We are so grateful for every filmmaker, audience member, and supporter who continues to make this movement possible. The revolution is storytelling — and we’re just getting started.

🎥 NOU Film Festival 2025 | Harlem, NYC

10/11/2025

💛 Thank you, family.

Your love, care, and presence have made this festival possible. Thank you for sharing about NOU — through your stories, conversations, and with family and friends. Thank you for showing up for us.

Your well wishes and your care mean so much in a world that continues to wreak violence on our senses, spirits, and bodies. Coming together this weekend has been a balm to our souls — a reminder of why we do this, and of the power we hold when we gather in love and purpose.

We’ll be sharing more photos soon, but for now — don’t forget to come in from the rain and join us tonight at Maysles Documentary Center for La 42 by José María Cabral.

🎬 6:45 PM | 343 Malcolm X Blvd, Harlem
💫 Let’s keep writing the future together.

10/09/2025

🌺✨ TONIGHT! We open the 3rd Annual Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival!

🎬 Join us as we celebrate Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love — stories that heal, resist, and bridge Ayiti and Kiskeya through the power of cinema.

🕔 Thursday, Oct 9 | 5PM–8PM
📍 CCCADI – Ilé Oyin | 208 E 126th St, Harlem
🎉 Light reception + Opening Shorts Program: Looking Within

Come witness films that honor our ancestors and challenge us to imagine a freer future. This is more than a festival — it’s a movement. 💫

🎟 Tickets (sliding scale): www.dominicanslovehaitians.org

10/09/2025

🏝️ What does “home” mean when the sea separates you from it?

🎬 Home
📍 Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem
🗓 Saturday, Oct 11 | 11:00 AM EDT
🎞 Shorts Program 2: Fractals of Immigration

Told through the eyes of a daughter whose mother left the Dominican Republic by boat when she was only three months old, Home traces the emotional and physical journeys of Dominican immigrants seeking freedom and safety across the sea.

Through personal narratives, interviews, and haunting memories, this film navigates what it means to risk everything for a new beginning—and what “home” becomes when you’ve left it behind. 🌊🏠

🎟 Sliding-scale tickets: www.dominicanslovehaitians.org

10/09/2025

✈️ What happens when chasing your dreams means leaving home behind?

🎬 Home, Sick Home
📍 Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem
🗓 Saturday, Oct 11 | 11:00 AM EDT
🎞 Shorts Program 2: Fractals of Immigration

Home, Sick Home follows Stacy, a 19-year-old Dominican girl whose journey from home to higher education in Canada becomes a story of triumph shadowed by longing.

Directed by Janilee David, this tender film explores how opportunity and absence can exist side by side — and how even in success, the ache of separation endures. 🌍💔

A moving reflection on migration, belonging, and the quiet cost of ambition.

🎟 Sliding-scale tickets: www.dominicanslovehaitians.org

10/09/2025

☀️ What does belonging look like when the world keeps shifting beneath your feet?

🎬 The Meteorites
📍 Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem
🗓 Sunday, Oct 12 | 1:00 PM EDT
🎞 Shorts Program 5: Presence – Hearing Others

Set in Montreal, The Meteorites follows two Black sisters of Haitian origin, Léna and Maëlle, placed by Quebec’s Youth Protection Services in a white foster family. Through their daily adventures in the summer of 2002, the film reveals a tender, complex portrait of love, identity, and family beyond bloodlines.

A story about listening — to ourselves, to one another, and to the spaces where we find home. 💫

🎟 Sliding-scale tickets: www.dominicanslovehaitians.org

10/09/2025

👵🏽 A love letter to the women who made us.

🎬 The Making of a Matriarch
📍 Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem
🗓 Saturday, Oct 11 | 11:00 AM EDT
🎞 Shorts Program 2: Fractals of Immigration

Voiced by a third-generation Dominican-American filmmaker, this intimate documentary uncovers family heritage by tracing the life of her grandmother — a matriarch who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1960s.

The Making of a Matriarch is a touching reflection on legacy, migration, and the powerful women whose sacrifices shaped generations. It’s a story of memory, resilience, and love that transcends borders. ❤️

🎟 Sliding-scale tickets: www.dominicanslovehaitians.org

10/08/2025

🕯 Bearing witness. Breaking silence.

🎬 1964: Simityè Kamoken
📍 Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem
🗓 Sunday, Oct 12 | 3:30 PM EDT

In 1964, after an attempted rebellion against the Duvalier dictatorship, a brutal campaign of terror swept across Haiti’s Southeast region.
Over 50 years later, the surviving peasants who endured that violence speak out — many for the first time.

Directed by Rachèle Magloire, this haunting documentary confronts a history too long buried, reclaiming the stories of those who refused to be erased.

🎟 Sliding-scale tickets: www.dominicanslovehaitians.org

10/08/2025

🔥 Sanctuary. Resistance. Queerness as Divine.

🎬 Masisi Wouj
📍 Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem
🗓 Saturday, Oct 11 | 1:30 PM EDT
🎞 Shorts Program 3: Speculations of Space and Body

Haitian artist and activist Sanba Yonel reimagines Vodou as a refuge for q***r and non-binary people in Masisi Wouj.
In Haiti, the word masisi—often used as a slur—becomes a declaration of power, beauty, and spiritual truth.

This short film is a tribute to the Lwa, Vodou’s gods and goddesses of rebellion, who remind us that q***rness has always been sacred. 🕯🏳️‍🌈

Join us in Harlem for a screening that transcends body, faith, and nation—where art becomes ritual, and ritual becomes resistance.

🎟 Sliding-scale tickets: www.dominicanslovehaitians.org

10/08/2025

📱✨ What happens when silence becomes your superpower?

🎬 The Most Quiet Noise
📍 Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem
🗓 Saturday, Oct 11 | 1:30 PM EDT
🕯 Second Screening: Sunday, Oct 12 | 1:00 PM EDT
🎞 Shorts Program 3: Speculations of Space and Body

A young woman perpetually distracted by social media is suddenly set on a new course when she discovers she has a supernatural ability — one that forces her to tune out the noise and truly listen.

Directed by Joanne Flovello, The Most Quiet Noise asks what we might hear when we finally disconnect and awaken to ourselves.

🎟 Sliding-scale tickets: www.dominicanslovehaitians.org

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