Reconnecting with Cuba Volviendo a Cuba
Havana Nagila: The Jews in Cuba
Rich in archival material and Cuban ambiance, with interviews that present a side of Cuba never seen before, the film reveals some forgotten Jewish history and examines aspects of Cuban politics and culture through the experiences of Jews in both pre-and post-Revolutionary Cuba. Havana Nagila will leave audiences inspired by the Jews of Cuba - and challenged by them. [From jewishcuba.org]
Director Laura Paull
Genre Documentary
Year 1995
Length 56 min.
Language English and Spanish
Subtitles English
Cuba Mia My Cuba
My Cuba documents the story of a group of Cuban-born U.S. Jews who return on a tour to the Cuba of their childhood to find it both hauntingly familiar and radically changed.
Director Rhonda Mitrani
Genre Documentary
Year 2004
Length 47 min.
Language English and Spanish
Subtitles English
Adio kerida Goodbye Dear Love
A personal journey about the search for identity and memory among Sephardic Jews with roots in Cuba. Anthropologist Ruth Behar returns to her native Cuba in search of the country's remaining Sephardic Jews and her family's ties to them. Features interviews with Sephardic Jews in Cuba and Miami.
Director Ruth Behar
Genre Documentary
Year 2002
Length 82 min.
Language English and Spanish
Subtitles English
Crossing Borders: A Cuban Returns
Tells the story of Dr. Magaly Lavendez, a professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who reflects on her cultural identity when she returns to the country of her birth and finds that neither the United States or Cuba offers complete acceptance.
Director Glenn Gebhard
Genre Documentary
Year 1998?
Length 49 min.
Language English
Subtitles No
Motherland: Cuba Korea USA
From her adopted U.S. homeland, documentarian Dai Sil Kim-Gibson travels to Cuba to meet another Korean emigrant, Martha Lim Kim, member of a small community of Koreans who made Cuba their own adopted homeland.
Director Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
Genre Documentary
Year 2006
Length 41 min.
Language English and Spanish
Subtitles English
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories
Pablo Elliot Foster Carrión interviews members of his family who left Cuba in 1962, including his grandfather, Pablo Abraham Foster, his father, Pablo Foster, his uncle Rubén Foster, and his aunt Diana-Elena Matsoukas. He learns of their experiences in Cuba, as well how they grew up in the Bronx. His father makes a return visit to Cuba, in 1995 with his wife and daughter, in order to see the landmarks of his childhood, and to visit with his aunt who was left behind. Family members talk about their complex identities as Afro-Cuban immigrants and as Americans.
Director Pam Sporn
Genre Documentary
Year 2000
Length 56 min.
Language English and Spanish
Subtitles English
Sources
Bejarano, Margalit. "From Turkey to the United States: The Trajectory of Cuban Sephardim in Miami." In Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Approach, edited by Bejarano Margalit and Aizenberg Edna, 141-58. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2012. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j1vzsc.13.