Adio Kerida (2002)

Directed by

Ruth Behar

Genre

documentary film

Country

Cuba, United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An anthropologist returns to Cuba to explore her family's past and connect with the tiny Sephardic Jewish community still living there.

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What happens

Adio Kerida: Goodbye my Dear Love is a 2002 documentary by American anthropologist Ruth Behar that follows her trip to Cuba, which her family left when she was four. She searches for memories from her past and investigates the dwindling Sephardic Jewish community that remains, estimated at less than 800 in 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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