Het Filmgesprek: Freda

Het Filmgesprek is a foundation that has been supporting activities that focus on the in-depth conversation about films since 1937. Het Filmgesprek challenges moviegoers to explore and deepen their experience of movies with conversations about movies and life questions.

On Monday evening, August 22, WCA organizes an in-depth evening with Het Filmgesprek around the film Freda. Led by Marjan Slob, the film will be reflected upon in an in-depth post-screening discussion. The discussion can focus on questions such as: what touched you in this film and why? 

Haiti has not been faring well for a long time. There is great poverty in the Caribbean country and corruption and violence are commonplace. Wouldn't it be better to leave? In her self-written feature debut, this is the question that Haitian director and actress Gessica Généus raises from a female perspective. Généus is aware of the social and political abuses, but her story focuses on the dynamic and creative sides of Haitian culture.

Anthropology student Freda lives with her family in a poor neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, where they run a small shop. Her younger sister Esther hopes to move up the social ladder by lightening her skin, while her brother Moïse thinks he will have more luck in Chile. Though Freda still believes in Haiti, she too has to decide whether she will stay or leave: her boyfriend Yeshua has asked her to go with him to the Dominican Republic.