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Hell Up Close

Ghosts of Cité Soleil: Humanizing the Inhuman

In Cité Soleil, a region of Haiti’s Port-Au-Prince, scrawny, filthy toddlers run naked in the trash-covered streets. The town resembles an enormous, nightmarish labyrinth, with grim, narrow stone corridors winding endlessly past citizens dazed by the strife of a merciless struggle for survival. Danish director Asger Leth’s Ghosts of Cité Soleil captures this traumatized locale […]

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