Monica Sorelle

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Monica Sorelle

Monica Sorelle is a Haitian-American filmmaker and artist born & based in Miami. Her work explores alienation and displacement, and preserves cultural traditions within Miami & the Caribbean with a focus on the African & Latin diasporas that reside there. Monica’s feature directorial debut, Mountains, had its world premiere at Tribeca Festival, where it was awarded a Special Jury Mention in the U…

Known For

The Ballad of Suzanne CésaireThe Ballad of Suzanne Césaire · 2025
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
★ 6.02025
MovieDrama
An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's work.
MountainsMountains · 2024
Mountains
★ 7.72024
MovieDrama
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.
LibertyLiberty · 2019
Liberty
★ 5.52019
MovieDrama
In Miami's Liberty City, members of a black community threatened by gentrification and displacement are trying to return to their everyday lives after the death of a woman. Loggy and Alex’s friendship becomes strained by their different ways of coping with the traumatic event. With great poise and focus, Faren Humes takes a deep look at the lives of the African-American adolescents, tracing the path the two must take if they are to find their way back to one another.
You Can Always Come HomeYou Can Always Come Home · 2021
You Can Always Come Home
2021
Movie
You Can Always Come Home explores the architecture of the domestic realm through the eyes of young children in Miami by celebrating the ritual, family, love, and culture cultivated in the Black diasporic home.
TT · 2019
T
★ 6.72019
MovieDocumentaryDrama
A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. t-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.

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