MOUNTAINS

By Monica SORELLE

MORETHAN FILMS - as SALES All rights, WW except USA

Drama - Completed 2023

While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying Miami neighborhood.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2023
Centrepiece
Tribeca FF 2023
Special Jury Mention
Goteborg IFF 2024
Voyage
Miami IFF 2024
Made in MIA Feature Film Award
Seattle 2024
New American Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama, Family, First film
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • CREOLE, ENGLISH, SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Monica SORELLE
    • Writer(s)
    • Monica SORELLE, Robert COLOM
    • Producer(s)
    • Robert COLOM (Conéme), Tristan SCOTT-BEHRENDS (Neon Heart Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • Dutiful middle-aged Haitian demolition worker Xavier is outgrowing the Little Haiti home he shares with his wife Esperance – a seamstress and school crossing guard – and their millennial son, Junior – who keeps his standup comedy aspirations from his father.

      Xavier has remained loyal, hardworking, and well respected for decades. But as the demolition sites inch closer to home, the realities of gentrification come into focus, and Xavier’s loyalties are tested.