Run from Rain
2025
Kouri Pou Lapli
Conflict Migration Journalism Documentary, Short
Synopsis
Two years ago 16-year-old Macul Nelson lost both of his parents due to gang violence and had to flee Port Lafiteau on the outskirts of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to the Central Plateau where he now resides with his former neighbor and stand-in grandmother. As the eldest of four siblings, this short film follows Macul as he works through the trauma of violence and the growing power of gangs in Haiti. Despite friends and the pull of gangs recruitment of young men across the country, Macul finds a home and support system at a Summits Education school in the small commune of Marerouge at a time when more than 300,000 children have no access to school and 1 million people are displaced by gangs in the country.
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