Grenadiers

After 52 years, Haiti returns to the 2026 World Cup without having played a single match at home. Forced into exile by gang rule and a collapsing state, veteran players and rising stars must forge a unified team to compete on football's biggest stage, carrying with them the hopes of a nation in crisis.

GRENADIERS is an immersive story of the Haitian national team, from training camp through the World Cup. With exclusive, intimate access inside the locker room, on the training pitch, and on the ground in Haiti, we follow each match under two clocks: ninety minutes on the field, and a crisis accelerating back home. Football becomes a lens through which to understand Haiti: how scattered people find connection through a team, and what that team reveals about the country they represent. We are close enough to see the private cost behind the public triumph.

As Haitian filmmakers, we needed to tell this story ourselves. Tired of outsiders framing Haiti through crisis and disaster alone, we reclaim this triumph on our own terms. Not to romanticize it. Not to reduce it to adversity. But to hold its contradictions honestly: the fragility alongside the strength. As football fans, this is the film we always wanted about the 1974 team. A mirror of brilliance and pride for Haitians everywhere, and a window for the world to finally see Haiti as we know it.