Bembé
Location: Cuba, Guantanamo, Yateras
Project Date: May 30, 2018
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This documentary was also the first Cuban Virtual Reality Documentary. The film focuses on two remote and isolated communities of the Oriente Province in Guantanamo, Cuba: Felicidad de Yateras and Caridad de Los Indios.
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An immersive experience that manifests both the material world and the spiritual world, this intimate and energetic documentary courses through normal island life and into an experiential eyewitness of the religious celebration of Bembé. Encompassing elements of Christianity and the African Yoruba, Bembé is a Cuban tradition when family, friends, and neighbors take part in a celebration that can last up to seven days, wherein the souls of dead slaves come to Earth.
Bembé has been featured at
Sundance Film Festival 2020, New Frontier selection.