Director Gessica Geneus attends the Freda photocall during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 15. (Dominique Charriau / WireImage) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The economy has collapsed. Crime is rising. Protests are paralyzing the country. Amid the chaos, a student, her two siblings and their single mother wrestle with an ...

Five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola has joined Freda — the Haitian Oscar entry marking the narrative feature debut of actor, singer and documentarian Gessica Généus — as an executive ...

“Freda” marks an outstanding feature debut for actress-singer-filmmaker Gessica Geneus. This vital and vibrant drama is Haiti’s submission in the Oscar international feature category.

How are they going to get out of this mess? Fate intervenes when the pregnant Laura (Gessica Geneus) and her timid husband Patrick (Patrick Joseph) are getting in their car. Doc and Zoe just ...

Princeton French Film Festival - Screening of « Freda » by Gessica Généus starting at 7:00 pm. In Haitian Creole and French, with English subtitles. Followed by a discussion and Q&A with the film’s ...

When your homeland slides into chaos do you stay or do you flee? That is the dilemma facing the title character in Gessica Geneus’ Creole-language debut feature Freda. The story of a young woman ...

“Freda” marks an outstanding feature debut for actress-singer-filmmaker Gessica Geneus. This vital and vibrant drama is Haiti’s submission in the Oscar international feature category.