A daughter returns to Cuba to save her father—then he dies. What she uncovers rewrites everything.
In her feature documentary Seguridad, Newfoundland-based filmmaker Tamara Segura—once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a militia publicity stunt—portrays her troubled relationship with her father in the context of the Cuban Revolution. When Segura accepts a scholarship to study film in Canada, the move offers crucial distance from her alcoholic father. After four years, she returns to Cuba hoping to make amends. But her father’s sudden death just days after her arrival forces Segura to explore his troubled past and the role Cuba’s highly militarized system played in his downfall. Through a series of deeply personal on-camera interviews with her immediate family, Segura unearths long-held secrets that ultimately tell a story of resilience and profound love between family members. Seguridad artfully weaves a lifetime’s worth of still photographs into its intimate narrative, which offers a rare glimpse into the inner lives of Cubans in the post-revolutionary era.
Direction
Segura films her own grief in real-time—unflinching.
Editing
Family photos become evidence, then poetry.
Director
Tamara Segura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Segura spent four years in Newfoundland before returning—just enough distance to see Cuba clearly, not enough to stop hurting.
The title 'Seguridad' means both 'security' and 'safety' in Spanish—the film asks which Cuba promised and which it destroyed.
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