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Liberty in a Soup

  • October 2015
  • 1hr

    8mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Dudley Alexis,

    Dudley Alexis,

    Frederic G. Chery,

    Starring

    Edwidge Danticat,

    David Destinoble,

    Karenne Cadet,

    Wislaine Charles Cadet

    ...

    Every New Year, and in celebration of their Independence, Haitian families gather together to feast in honor of a line of ancestors that fought for their freedom. The centerpiece of the festivity is the joumou soup—a traditional soup dating back centuries ago. The joumou soup is a concretization of war and victory, oppression and emancipation, and the deeply rooted celebratory traditions of the Haitian culture.