Zo Reken (2021)

Original title

zo reken

Directed by

Emanuel Licha

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the impact of international humanitarian aid in Haiti. It focuses on the Toyota Land Cruisers used by aid workers and shows how these vehicles represent both essential support and a tool of inequality.

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What happens

Zo Reken is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Emanuel Licha and released in 2021. Taking its name from a Haitian Creole slang term for the Toyota Land Cruiser, the film is an exploration of the impact of the international humanitarian aid apparatus in Haiti, centering on the ways in which it can be both a necessary lifeline and an instrument of economic inequality and repression. The film premiered at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won the juried award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary. It won the award for Best Documentary Film at the 2021 Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie. At the 2021 Montreal International Documentary Festival, it won the Grand Prize, National Feature and the Student Jury Award, and received an honorable mention from the Magnus Isacsson Award jury. It received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Étienne Roussy). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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