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In 2012, the Haitian government amended the country’s constitution to allow dual citizenship. Filmmaker Rachelle Salnave is eager to reclaim her Haitian citizenship, but the process is far from simple: To do so, her father, Edouard, must reclaim his first before she can. Edouard, a New York Republican who has not set foot in Haiti in more than 50 years, reluctantly agrees to help his daughter, which means engaging with a country and government he has kept at arm’s length since his family’s political exile in the 1960s. This humorous and heartfelt documentary is both a father-daughter road trip and a meditation on what it means to hold two national identities.
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00:00Dad?
00:00Yes?
00:01This project, the reason why I'm doing this is because I want to get my dual citizenship.
00:08This is United States of America, man.
00:11You swear to be an American citizen.
00:15So you're not Haitian?
00:16Me?
00:17Fifty years I live in this country to be Haitian?
00:22I vote for Democrats.
00:24No, I hate them.
00:26I don't like them.
00:26To steal my country, to take everything away from my country.
00:30Don't judge Trump on the prejudices of Haiti.
00:34Because their own Haitians can't judge Trump.
00:39Well, for you, I would do everything in my life.
00:43If you want me to do it, I will do it.
00:45But not for Haiti.
00:48Because it's a country...
00:50It's a country of lies and lies.
01:01So happy.
01:03So happy.
01:04So happy.
01:04I want one.
01:08So happy.
01:12Please don't.
01:18So happy.
01:19You're not going to do it.
01:22We are going to do it.
01:22But it's not a country of Haitian.
01:22What is it?
01:24We are going to do it.
01:27You are going to do it.
01:30You don't want to do it.
01:31We are going to do it.
01:32You're going to do it.
01:33You're going to do it.
01:34What bullshit that guy say?
01:37Oh, you're against the law.
01:39It's bullshit, man.
02:21Do citizenship.
02:24We gonna be Haitian again.
02:27We gonna be Haitian again.
02:28We're gonna be Haitian again.
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