Adio Kerida
( Goodbye Dear Love )

Ruth Behar
2002 - 82 min - États-Unis

Anthropologist Ruth Behar returns to her native Cuba in search of the country's remaining Sephardic Jews and her family's ties to them.
Her grandparents were Jewish emigrants to Cuba and hoped it would be their promised land. But like most Cuban Jews, they left Cuba after the revolution and resettled in the United States, with only a small number of Jews remaining on the island.
Haunted by the Sephardic love song, "Adio Kerida" (Goodbye Dear Love), Ruth Behar's filmic memoir is a lyrical journey into Cuba's Jewish past and present that is filled with painful goodbyes and a passionate belief in the possibility on return. A bittersweet and often humorous portrait emerges of the exotic tribe of Sephardic Jews left in Cuba, as well as the Jewish Cubans living in the United States.
This unusually warm and intimate documentary is dedicated to the filmmaker's father, who insists that goodbyes are final and you should never look back.