Film
Xiara's Song
United States- Age rating
- PG
- Director
- Liz Garbus
- Year
- 2005
Prison keeps them apart. Music holds them together.
Xiara Trujillo is a precocious seven-year-old who moved from the Bronx to Maryland with her mom, Aracelli Guzman, four years ago. Though she seems happy hanging out and playing with her pal Melissa, Xiara becomes defensive and emotional when talking about her father, Harold Linares. As we see and learn, Harold is in jail serving a ten-year sentence for weapons possession; Xiara seems to blame his incarceration on her mother, whom she says "kept calling the police." Xiara, who has always been extremely close to her father, acts out with her mother.
Top cast
Directed by
Liz Garbus
Produced by
Rory Kennedy, Liz Garbus, Lisa Heller
