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Through Your Eyes

Through Your Eyes

2026•1h 31m
Documentary

In an effort to understand where she came from, Fabiola asked a question that became the central phrase of the film: what would my life have been like if I'd stayed in Haiti? Taking as her starting point her biological mother's precarious economic situation, she had no choice but to entrust her daughter to her care. Fabiola could have ended up restavek, or in a loving foster family, or on the streets abandoned to her fate, or adopted abroad.

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EMAfilms

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FR

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Brigitte Poupart

Brigitte Poupart

Self

Fabiola Pierre Monty

Self

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