“In 1973, General Augusto Pinochet launched a violent coup in Chile that overthrew the Marxist elected president Salvador Allende. Thousands were killed, tortured, imprisoned, and exiled as a result. My family was among the many that were exiled in Canada.” – Francisca Duran In this experimental, autobiographical film, a young woman remembers and recounts difficult childhood memories of the 1973 coup in Chile when her family was forced into exile.
Cuentos de Mi Ninez (Tales from My Childhood)
- Film Maker
- Duran, Francisca
- Year
- 1991
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Format
- 16mm
- Length
- 8
- Genre
- documentary, experimental
- Category
- Childhood, Families, history, political activism, Politics + Policy, Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Work about Women, Work by Women
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