The 2024 Sundance Film Festival has selected 53 short films for screenings during its annual program January 18 to 28. Among them is the film “Dreams like paper boats” – in French, Des rêves en bateaux papiers – by Samuel Frantz Suffren.

The plot for “Dreams” unfolds around a cassette. Protagonist Édouard – who has a little daughter – receives the cassette from his wife, who has lived in the United States for a long time. 

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Ralph Delly is an award-winning music and entertainment journalist with extensive experience covering the Haitian Music Industry and the Haitian-American community. He has worked in Haiti and the United States at such media organizations as Radio Metropole, WNWK/107.5 FM, Radio Soleil d’Haïti and The Haitian Time – where he penned the popular “The Delly Dish” gossip column. Dellys has worked with numerous artists in the HMI, including Zin, Lakol, Phantoms, Zenglen, Sokute, Jam, See Well and 509 – to name a few. Delly graduated from Carlos Albizu University of Miami and City College of New York (CUNY)