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A stunning self-portrait, tough, raw, stubborn, and powerful "Beba" stares down the curses of her ancestry, probing the psychic wounds she has inherited, while simultaneously embracing the vastness of her multitudes. (R, 79 min.)
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First-time feature filmmaker Rebeca "Beba" Huntt undertakes an unflinching exploration of her own identity in the remarkable coming-of-age documentary/cinematic memoir BEBA.
Reflecting on her childhood and adolescence in New York City as the daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother, Huntt investigates the historical, societal, and generational trauma she's inherited and ponders how those ancient wounds have shaped her, while simultaneously considering the universal truths that connect us all as humans.
Throughout BEBA, Huntt searches for a way to forge her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest. Poetic, powerful and profound, BEBA is a courageous, deeply human self-portrait of an Afro-Latina artist hungry for knowledge and yearning for connection.
Starring: Rebeca Huntt
Director: Rebeca Huntt
Genre(s): Documentary
"A revelation."
— Peter Debruge, Variety
"A virtuoso bomb-drop of a documentary."
— Mark Keizer, AV Club
"A gorgeous visual memoir laced with poetry, memory, and truth."
— Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
"[An] absorbing experimental documentary about a young woman's journey to find herself."
— Lovia Gyarkye, Hollywood Reporter
"'Beba' is a fascinating self-journal, a work about family, isolation, existing within America, and existing as who you are, that takes no prisoners and leaves plenty of casualties."
— Robert Daniels, indieWire
"Turning the lens on herself in ways in which we rarely see women of color do, first-time feature filmmaker Rebecca “Beba” Huntt exhibits a vulnerability that is incredibly brave."
— Ronda Racha, Penrice TheWrap
"An insightful, engaging and all-around affirmational auto-portrait from an Afro-Latina New Yorker with an ear for poetry and an eye for the ineffable, Beba never questions its own right to exist."
— Peter Debruge, Variety
"The free-flowing style, aided by dreamlike editing from Isabel Freeman, is both playful and sombre, offering a captivating snapshot of a young artist trying to make sense of her complicated self."
— Tim Grierson, Screen Daily
"In the telling of her own story, Huntt in Beba is necessarily telling the stories of others, too, and ultimately it is that focus on how things interconnect - not just individuals, but histories themselves - that render Beba such a fascinating experience"
— Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, AWFJ Women on Film
"Rebeca Huntt's Beba is the coming-of-age story that Black American children have been waiting for, a documentary that encompasses every step of reclamation of an American bloodline. While this is a work to reveal the illusion of meta narratives, it’s also an outpouring of love and truth, one that documents a movement with a keen eye."
— Niani Scott, RogerEbert.com
