Henri Pardo

What do you hold onto when everything familiar is gone? . 📽️ Kanaval – Winner of Best BIPOC Canadian Feature Film at TIFF 2023 and Best Fiction Feature at TTFF 2025 – is coming to UK screens as part of Crossroads. . A Haitian boy. A strange new country. And a mythological imaginary friend who just might show him the way home. . 🇬🇧 UK SCREENINGS 📍 Towner Cinema, Eastbourne – 14 May 📍 BEAM, Hertford – 15 May 📍 Electric Palace, Hastings – 18 June (+ talkback with Tola Dabiri) 🎟️ at link in bio ☝🏽 . #Crossroads #Kanaval #CaribbeanCinema #TTFF #HaitianCinema IndependentCinema CaribbeanDiaspora

🎬 Join us April 6th, 2026, for our Monday Night Movies series screening of KANAVAL Come experience KANAVAL and witness the powerful breakout performance of Rayan Dieudonné. A rising Haitian-Canadian talent, Dieudonné delivers a deeply moving performance in KANAVAL—a role that earned him a nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Drama Film at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards. Don’t miss the chance to see this remarkable young actor on the big screen. This series is a collaboration among Cine Amor, FePouLi, the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, FIU’s Public Humanities Lab, and Lakou. Join us not just to watch and listen, but to claim space and be heard. 🎶 Prescreening musical tunes provided by DJ Mack.. 📍 Lakou Miami | ⏰ 6 PM 🔗 RSVP link in our bio A film from @henripardo

💜 What a special night as we announced and celebrated the award-winning films of TTFF/25! The intimate ceremony was attended by filmmakers, friends, family, jury members and members of the TTFF advisory board. . Awards were presented across a range of categories: 🏆 Best Film made in T+T, Charlotteville tails, directed by Elspeth Duncan, 🏆 Paddington Prize for Best student film, Depeyize, directed by Pamela Bencosme 🏆 Fiction short film, Blue heart, directed by Samuel Suffren 🏆 Documentary short film, Bubbling baby, directed by Sharine Rijsenburg 🏆 Mid-length documentary film, Zone, directed by Simon Shim-Sutcliffe 🏆 Feature-length fiction film, Kanaval, directed by Henri Pardo 🏆 Feature-length documentary film, L'homme vertige - tales of a city, directed by Malaury Eloi Paisley . Honourable mention was made of: 🏅 Peko – today for tomorrow, directed Jovan Lalla (Films made in T+T) 🏅 Blue Pandora, Alan González (Fiction short) 🏅 Olivia & the clouds, directed by Tomás Pichardo Espaillat (Fiction feature) 🏅Saint Andrews, directed by Erin Ramirez (Student film) . 👏 Our warmest congratulations go out to all the award winners! . .......................... 🎥 TTFF/25 is made possible with thanks to our amazing sponsors, partners, collaborators and volunteers! . SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Ministry of Trade and Tourism/ @globaltrinidadandtobago Fernandes Foundation . PRIMARY VENUE PARTNERS One Woodbrook Place @cinemaonetrinidad . PROGRAMME PARTNERS @bocaslitfest @c15studios COSTATT Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago High Commission for Canada in Trinidad and Tobago @medullaartgallery The Frame Shop V-Tape .......................... #TTFF25 #TTFilmFestival #CaribbeanFilms #CaribbeanFilmmakers

🎉 🥇 We are delighted to announce the WINNER of the TTFF/25 award for BEST FEATURE-LENGTH FICTION FILM is: 🏆 KANAVAL, directed by Henri Pardo . The fiction films jury also made HONOURABLE MENTION of: 🎬 OLIVIA + THE CLOUDS directed by Tomás Pichardo Espaillat . Of 'Kanaval', the jury praised ‘This immersive, stunning film, [which] leaves the viewer drenched in dreamy, unforgettable images. From Haiti’s streets of wild and vibrant carnival, to snowy fields in a wintery Quebec; from the celestial to the earthly, we experience the agony of loss and displacement through Rico, exquisitely played by Rayan Dieudonne. There is such magic here, such terrific imagination at work. . "This is a story about belonging; an exploration of the delicate bond between a mother and son. 'Kanaval' comes like an arrow from the heart of the displaced everywhere." . The jury remarked that 'Olivia + the Clouds is, "a splendid explosion of original filmmaking. So much beauty and colour! Ambitious and glorious." . The TTFF/25 award winners were announced at an intimate and relaxed ceremony at One Woodbrook Place on Sunday night. . 🎉We congratulate all the winners! . .......................... 🎥 TTFF/25 is made possible with thanks to our amazing sponsors, partners, collaborators and volunteers! . SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Ministry of Trade and Tourism/ @globaltrinidadandtobago Fernandes Foundation . PRIMARY VENUE PARTNERS One Woodbrook Place @cinemaonetrinidad . PROGRAMME PARTNERS @bocaslitfest @c15studios COSTATT Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago High Commission for Canada in Trinidad and Tobago @medullaartgallery The Frame Shop V-Tape .......................... #TTFF25 #TTFilmFestival #CaribbeanFilms #CaribbeanFilmmakers

Les finalistes dans la catégorie : CINÉASTE / RÉALISATEUR(TRICE) DE L’ANNÉE .... The finalists in the category : FILMMAKER/DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR Adam Mbowe @adam_mbowe Henri Pardo @henripardo Maryse Legagneur @maryselegagneur Michèle Stephenson @michele_0608 Nadia Louis-Desmarchais @nanalouisdesmarchais Félicitations 🔥 Présentée par @radiocanada

@henripardo is delighted to have Kanaval Screening at JFF2025! Make sure you get your tickets because this year’s edition will be sensational! #JFF2025 #TheGoldenThread #Kanaval #JoburgFilmFestival

@henripardo shares that his family’s history is the driving force behind everything he writes. Catch Kanaval screening at JFF2025! #JFF2025 #TheGoldenThread #Kanaval #JoburgFilmFestival

“The Carnival in Haiti represents those first Africans that said no, we will deny this way that Europeans are treating us” - @henripardo Catch Kanaval, screening at JFF2025! #JFF2025 #TheGoldenThread #Kanaval #JoburgFilmFestival2025

A young Haitian boy is whisked away from his island and taken to a strange planet called Canada. With his imaginery friend, Kana, who comes straight out of Hatian mythology, he must navigate this new world and rebuild his strained relationship with his mother. #TheGoldenThread #JFF2025 #Kanaval

🎬Projection de KANAVAL – Vendredi 6 décembre à 19h 🎬 ✨ Premier film du Festival Coup de Projecteur 2024, juste après la cérémonie d'ouverture, le vendredi 6 décembre à 7pm au Globe Cinema de Calgary ! 🌍 D’Haïti au Québec, découvrez le premier long métrage « Kanaval » d’Henri Pardo, inspiré de son propre parcours, à découvrir absolument !! Avec Séance de questions-réponses en direct avec le réalisateur après la projection ! Ce film émouvant raconte l’histoire d’un jeune garçon et de sa mère qui, fuyant leur Haïti natale au début des années 70, s’installent dans un village rural du Québec. Le garçon se réfugie dans son ami invisible pour affronter ce nouvel environnement. Avec Rayan Dieudonné, Penande Estime, Martin Dubreuil. 😍 📅 6-8 décembre 2024 📍 Globe Cinema, Calgary 🎟️ Entrée GRATUITE ! Réservez vos places via le lien en bio. #Kanaval #FestivalCoupDeProjecteur #CinémaFrancophone #GlobeCinema #CalgaryEvents #FilmFestival2024 #Haïti #CinémaGratuit #QandA #HenryPardo

C’est reparti mon kiki! Spontanément je dirais que ces entretiens se placent sous le signe de la solidarité, mais ce serait insuffisant et quasi-réducteur pour mes invités. Je vous invite à les écouter raconter leur défrichage, féminisme, convictions, rêves et révolutions tous les jours dès 14h sur @icircpremiere L’indispensable @lil.soum Soumaya Harbaoui à la réalisation 15 juillet Dr Stanley Vollant 16 juillet Vanessa Destiné 17 juillet Sarah-Maude Beauchesne 19 juillet Zaho de Sagazan 20 juillet Henri Pardo