On Sugar Workers’ Quarters
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Directed by Sara Gómez • 1971 • Cuba
Director Sara Gómez offers a look at everyday life in the bateyes—the worker’s settlements surrounding sugarcane mills—told from the perspective of the inhabitants.
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