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Fatal Assistance, Raoul Peck, 2012

Fatal Assistance + Q&A

16 Mar 2013

Award-winning Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a two-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory, and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti. Through its provocative and radical point of view, Fatal Assistance offers a devastating indictment of the international community’s post-disaster idealism. The film dives headlong into the complexity of the reconstruction process and the practices and impact of worldwide humanitarian and development aid, revealing the disturbing extent of a general failure. We learn that a major portion of the money pledged to Haiti was never disbursed, nor made it into the actual reconstruction. Fatal Assistance leads us to one clear conclusion: current aid policies and practice in Haiti need to stop immediately.

Official Selection Berlin Film Festival 2013

Presented in association with ActionAid UK

Dir. Raoul Peck, Haiti/France/US 2012, 100 mins, documentary, English, French and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.

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