Marie Barbancourt - Haiti Observer Blog

Haitian-American Marie Barbancourt, resident of Montreal and television broadcaster, has made "Pour que plus jamais", a film about underground atrocities committed against middle-class citizens in Haiti, under the Martelly-Lamothe government. Although the film's narrative is fictional, it is based on happenings Barbancourt and her family suffered through that echo the reign of Francois Duvalier, who was a blood thirsty dictator.

Barbancourt, who wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the film, plays Mia, also an ex-pat in Montreal. When she receives word her mother has been mysteriously executed back in Haiti, following the puzzling death of her father sometime before, she returns to get justice. The reason for both deaths is her parents' ownership of a home and some acreage, object of a land grab by a family with ties to corrupt politicians. She goes to court to resolve the issue, but the judge refuses to adjudicate her case. Instead she is thrown in jail on false charges, where she is tormented, so she will relinquish her claim.

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