Immigrant worker Xavier dreams of a more spacious home for his wife and son while earning a living demolishing houses, dismantling his rapidly changing neighborhood of Little Haiti, Miami brick by brick.
Mountains is a multi-generational drama that explores the relationships between immigrants and their children, the looming threat of gentrification, and the pursuit of the American dream. “A low-key, poetic exploration of life’s ironies, Monica Sorelle’s feature debut
Mountains frames the disappearance of Miami’s Little Haiti with a warm, compassionate gaze recalling the masters of social realism. A beautifully lensed record of a community.”—John Fink,
The Film Stage.
In English and in Haitian Creole and Spanish with English subtitles.
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.
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