Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji (We Heart We Synergy) Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival
October 9-12, 2025 – Harlem, New York
Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival aims to showcase art and films from emerging and accomplished industry professionals of the Haitian Dominican African Diaspora to authentically reflect our community’s diverse experiences and backgrounds. Its programming in 2025 promotes cultural diversity through various art genres, including dramatic, documentary, experimental, short films, and panel discussions.
Founded by Dominicans Love Haitians Movement, Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Transnational Film Festival is a four-day festival celebrating a transnational experience, one that extends beyond the borders of these two nations and encompasses the experiences of the Haitian and Dominican Diaspora globally.
By telling our stories, we humanize Black and Indigenous people. By telling our stories, we take a moment to bring the veil and walls down that would lock us away from our emotions and feelings, humanizing one another.
Thus, “no person is an island,” we are not isolated people; we are directly impacted by what occurs in one location thousands of miles away across the globe. Once we shift our gaze, we recognize the similarities of the crisis impacting not just these two nations but many nations across the globe dealing with statelessness, migration, ecological disaster, racialization, poverty, xenophobia, neoliberalism, nationalism, white supremacy and anti-blackness, border walls, and encampments. Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival is created to counteract these divisive ideologies and messages created by propaganda, manipulation, and hate groups.
Thank You to Our Sponsors:
CCCADI, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Maysles Documentary Center, Color Congress, Reel Works, Medgar Evers SYEP, and Third World Newsreel
