Soleil O of the black people from Dahomey (now Benin) who were taken to the Caribbean as slaves. The film played during the International Critics' Week at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival where it received critical acclaim. It received a Golden Leopard award at the 1970 Locarno International Film Festival. In his "Family Guide to Movies on Video", Henry Herx wrote that the film's "use of ironic humor and lively music keeps the plight of the black emigrant worker from becoming totally depressing." Soleil O Soleil O (Oh, Sun) is a 1967 French-Mauritanian drama film directed by Med Hondo. The film "Soleil
Cité Soleil Cité Soleil Cité Soleil (; English: "Sun City") is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. Cité Soleil originally developed as a shanty town and grew to an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 residents, the majority of whom live in extreme poverty. The area is generally regarded as one of the poorest and most dangerous areas of the Western Hemisphere and it is one of the biggest slums in the Northern Hemisphere. The area has virtually no sewers and has a poorly maintained open canal system that serves as its sewage system, few