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Liberty in a Soup

Name: Liberty in a Soup
Director: Dudley Alexis
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-10-05
Duration: 68 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Edwidge Danticat, David Destinoble, Karenne Cadet, Wislaine Charles Cadet, Jean Claude Exulien

Release Date: October 5, 2015

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 1h 8m

Director: Dudley Alexis

Cast: Edwidge Danticat, David Destinoble, Karenne Cadet, Wislaine Charles Cadet, Jean Claude Exulien

Storyline

Every New Year, and in celebration of their Independence, Haitian families gather together to feast in honor of a line of ancestors that fought for their freedom. The centerpiece of the festivity is the joumou soup—a traditional soup dating back centuries ago. The joumou soup is a concretization of war and victory, oppression and emancipation, and the deeply rooted celebratory traditions of the Haitian culture.