2004 marked the bicentennial for the liberation of Haiti, yet the country has been plagued by misrule almost since its foundation. In Moloch Tropical director Raoul Peck fictionalizes the dramatic events and we meet the Haitian president Jean de Dieu Théogène, a former priest who has risen to head of state. It is the day that marks the liberation, the rebellion escalates but the president maintains his belief that the people are on his side – as the first democratically elected president of Haiti. Moloch Tropical is a study of the inner conflicts of man corrupted by power, and of the vast gap between a poor population and the people who rule them. hh