ASSISTANCE MORTELLE

On 12 January 2013, three years after the Haiti earthquake, which left 230,000 dead, 300,000 injured and 1.5 million homeless, the situation was still as bad as ever. Economic stagnation ruled, with little in the way of reconstruction, virtually permanent makeshift camps and new overpopulated shantytowns in Port-au-Prince and environs. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck chronicled this failure for two years, turning his attention to international aid, which he feels is the main problem. Arriving just after the earthquake and struck by the huge scale and opulence of the humanitarian machine he encountered, he decided to follow the reconstruction process over time. "Build Back Better", promised Bill Clinton, co-chair (with then prime minister of the Republic of Haiti Jean-Max Bellerive) of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, which coordinates the assistance efforts.