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At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of Jamaica’s brightest stars left their homeland behind to shine their light in an unlikely hub of Caribbean creativity: Toronto.
Haitian-American filmmaker Monica Sorelle makes an impressive narrative feature debut with "Mountains," a soft yet poignant look into the lives of one immigrant family in Miami's Little Haiti. Premiering at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, the film unfolded its poetic narrative — inspired by Sorelle's own upbringing in Florida — and it mingled wonderfully with Atibon Nazaire's quietly searing performance as Xavier, a middle-aged Haitian demolition worker trapped within his insistent community-destroying cycle of gentrification.
