Cuentos de Mi Ninez (Tales from My Childhood)

“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.

Film Maker
Duran, Francisca
Year
1991
Country
Canada
Length
8
Category
Childhood, Families, history, political activism, Politics + Policy, Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Work about Women, Work by Women
Genre
documentary, experimental