In April 2014 Ayọ 's concert tour was interrupted for several weeks as she played the lead role in the movie '' Murder in Pacot '' ( '' Meurtre à Pacot '' ) by the award-winning Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck , which was filmed in Port-au-Prince , Haiti , in April and May 2014 . This is the singers first appearance as an actress in a feature film . The film describes how the life of a rich family in Haiti changes after the 2010 earthquake . Besides Ayọ the film features French actors Alex Descas and Thibault Vinçon and Haitian poet and novice actress Kermonde Lovely Fifi . The script was co-written by the Haitian novelist and poet Lyonel Trouillot and the screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer . The production is supported by the French TV channel Arte , the World Cinema Fund and the European Union . The film will make its world premier at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 5 September 2014 . The European premiere of the film was in the Panorama category of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival on 7 February 2015 . Ayọ , the other leading actors , producer Remi Grellety , and director Raoul Peck attended the second screening of the film on 10 February at the Zoo Palast after a photocall and press conference at the Grand Hyatt hotel
65th Berlin International Film Festival
65th Berlin International Film Festival
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