Seguridad (2024)

Directed by

Tamara Segura

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about a daughter investigating her father's past after a family secret helps her understand his alcoholism and violent behavior that shaped her painful childhood. The filmmaker traces her own journey of estrangement and immigration from Cuba to Canada.

personalreflectiveintimatesadcontemplativerawemotionalquietly devastating

What happens

Seguridad is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tamara Segura and released in 2024. The film is a personal exploration of the life of her father Jorge, examining her discovery of a family secret that provided her with profound new insight into how he became an alcoholic whose propensity toward violent outbursts when drinking had profoundly negative and painful effects on her childhood, ultimately forcing her to estrange herself from him and move to Canada from their native Cuba. The film premiered on April 6, 2024, at the Miami International Film Festival, and had its Canadian premiere on April 29 at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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