2009/ Haiti & France/ 107mins/ Dir. Raoul Peck/ Language, French. English. Creole. (with Eng subt.)

For the centenary of International Women’s Day, Images of Black Women Film Festival pay homage to the courage and determination of Haitian women with this charity screening to fund a Haitian organisation working on the ground.

Master filmmaker Raoul Peck (Lumumba, Sometimes in April) returns with a haunting film about his home country – Haiti. Peck takes us to a hilltop fortress where the nation’s president is falling apart, buckling under the pressure of civil unrest and the international community’s increasing disapproval.

Crafting an almost Shakespearean tragedy in the confines of this isolated citadel, Peck delivers a searing critique of a government corrupted by power and an individual driven mad by it. Completed just months before the devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake, Moloch Tropical explores the damaging costs of political dysfunction in Haiti.

Post screening panel discussion: Focusing on the female protagonists in the film and considering the position of women in Haitian society by exploring the myth or/and reality of their role as Poto Mitan/Pillar of society.