Laberintos de la Memoria The Labyrinths of Memory |
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Mexico, dir. Guita Schyfter, 2007 – 95min In this moving documentary, Guyta Schyfter – a Costa Rican woman of Jewish Lithuanian descent – attempts to unite an adopted Cuban woman of indigenous Mexican heritage with her biological family. Parallels with Jewish dispossession during WWII, and the director’s own family’s wartime experiences, soon emerge. Los Laberintos de Memoria combines emotive personal stories with anthropological meanderings. Spanish, English,Yiddish, Lithuanian with English subtitles |