Guanabacoa: Chronicle of My Family

1966 13 min ⭐ 5.5/10 3 votes

Overview

A pioneer in the genre of autobiographical documentaries, this film made by the renowned Cuban director Sara Gómez explores her family roots to offer a family portrait through photos, popular music, and women’s tales. It is also a powerful document of an age and a way of living: that of middle- or upper-class black families in Cuba, meeting in exclusive bars just before the Cuban Revolution.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

Cuba

Spoken Languages

Spanish es

Flatrate

Criterion Channel

Cast

Crew

Sara Gómez

Director

Sara Gómez

Writer

Posters

External Links

IMDB