He shares his memory of fleeing with his family to São Paolo, where they ended up living for a number of years before returning to Argentina in 1956. He describes his upbringing as being governed by fear and hostility and talks about the importance of Jewish cultural identity. Hector Babenco begins by talking about his early childhood in Quilmes, a suburb of Buenos Aires that was predominantly an ex-Nazi neighborhood. It is a co-production with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative and is part of the project From Latin America to Hollywood: Latino Film Culture in Los Angeles 1967-2017.
Hector Babenco is interviewed by Mateus Araujo at Babenco’s home in São Paolo, Brazil, on March 25, 2016.
