My Father's Land
Documentary Features
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1h 0m
Papa Jah, a humble Haitian bushman and gardener, has lived in the Bahamas for 40 years, in a marginalized community called the Mud. As a strict deportation policy and growing xenophobia sweeps the country, news from Haiti arrives that his 103 three year old father has taken ill. Papa Jah risks his tentative legal immigration status, and returns to Haiti, hoping to reunite with his father and the land he left behind.
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