Raíces de mi corazón
Roots of My Heart
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"Raíces de mi corazon" ("Roots of my heart"), an independently produced short feature film, deals for the first time in Cuban media with the 1912 massacre of over 6,000 members of the Independents of Color, the hemisphere's first black political party outside Haiti.

Photos on the set...
Photos on the set -2: Mercedes looks at her ancestors' photos

Members of the Party: the Independents of Color


Mercedes researching old papers	The Mambí's two headed staff
Mercedes in the streets with her son	Mercedes' great-grandparents Maria Victoria and José Julián
Mother of Dreams by the sea	Mother of Dreams holds Mercedes
The Mambí
The massacre	Maria Victoria learns of the massacre
The past and the future
Celebration after the massacre, presided over by Jose Marti's son, in Havana's Parque Central. Note the bottle of wine in front of each celebrant.