In Absentia
- Duration: 42 min
- Director: Tareq Daoud
- Country of production: Switzerland/Cuba
- Shooting location: Guantanamo province, Cuba
The
Rancheria is a small isolated village in the mountains of the province
of Guantánamo, Cuba. The peasant community that lives there is descended
from the original inhabitants of the island. Five centuries after the
genocide perpetrated by the Spanish colonists against their Native
American ancestry, In Absentia explores through their specific case the
broader question of the survival and transmission of a culture.
Tareq Daoud
Born
in 1976 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Master degree in Life Sciences from
Geneva University followed by a cinema training at EICTV (Escuela
internacional de Cine y Television) in La Havana, Cuba. Author of
several fiction shorts. He lives and works between Geneva, Marseille and
Istanbul. He currently develops his second documentary, with the help
of the Swiss Federal Department of Culture, as well as a first feature
film.