MFF: Dual Citizen (2025)

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A humorous and heartfelt documentary about one father’s reluctant effort to help his daughter reclaim her Haitian citizenship – even if it means confronting a past he thought he’d left behind. Filmmaker Rachelle Salnave embarks on a deeply personal journey with her father, Edouard, to test a 2012 amendment to Haiti’s Constitution that allows dual nationality. But the process is far from simple: Edouard, a proud New York Republican who hasn’t set foot in Haiti in more than 50 years, must become Haitian again before his daughter can – forcing him to engage with a country and a government he’s kept at arm’s length since his family’s political exile in the 1960s. Dual Citizen is both a father-daughter road trip and a meditation on what it means to hold two national identities.