The Enigma of Frank Ryan

Brigadistas

A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels.

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the new regime. Five years later, on December 31, 1936, a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Unamuno dies at his home in Salamanca, capital of the rebel side, led by General Francisco Franco, and main center of dissemination of its propaganda apparatus.

Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco Franco and the most important moments of the Spanish Civil War. It uses footage from both sides of the war, music from the period and voice-over testimonies of various people.

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourgeois intellectuals, his communist commitment, his love for Spain and his opposition to the independence of Algeria, since it would cause the loss of his true home, his definitive estrangement.

Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still one of the Grass Dwellers. The only thing that he leaves from those years on the front is a collection of 28 letters in his own writing.

Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of eventual dictator Francisco Franco against the elected government of Spain.

On September 13, 1936, Ibiza is bombed. The republican forces flee the island, but not before mass shooting all the prisoners locked up in the city castle. On September 20, the so-called national forces landed, under the command of Commander Antonio Montis Castelló and Arconovaldo Bonacorsi, better known as Conde Rossi, who began a harsh repression that would last beyond the end of the war.

In 1936, after the coup d'état perpetrated by Franco against democratic Spain and the subsequent dictatorship that followed a bloody Civil War, women suffered physical, sexual, economic, educational and political violence, leading to the largest theft of babies in the world. History of recent Europe. 'Las vencidas y no derrotadas' is a documentary with the testimonies of these women, whose faces bear the mark left by unhealed wounds. Its protagonists tell us about real events, reliving events that were milestones in their families, towns and cities, supported by graphic documentation of family and personal memories, as well as images and audios from historical archives.

This film reveals testimonies, reflections and memories from the experience of many Aragonese who, after the Republican defeat in the civil war, had to cross the Atlantic in search of survival.

This documentary collects, through the testimonies of five survivors, four women and one man, the tragedy experienced in “la Desbandá de Málaga and the subsequent exile to France. At the entrance of Queipo de Llano's troops into the city of Malaga, thousands of people, mostly women and children, fled to Almería along the road. They were bombed by sea, land and air by the German army, Mussolini's army and Franco's troops from the then Moroccan colony. Around five thousand people died on these two hundred kilometers of road. This exodus was known as “La desbandá”.

This is the story of a forbidden song that mourned Esteban Ramón. Born in 1914, into a very humble family, the implacable Bercian mountains would be the silent witnesses of a sung tragedy whose notes we should not forget.

A documentary about the ghosts of Joan Perucho, which wants to be an immersive experience in the author's universe, in his literature, in his landscapes, his fears and obsessions, his experiences, war, cinema, vampires, the fantasy genre and pop culture.

In 1936, the war broke out in Spain and in 1937 the front was maintained for many months around Angiozar and Elgeta. It has often been talked about what men experienced, but women have also experienced the war. Through this documentary, their bravery and courage, both at the front and in resistance away from the front, has been highlighted and recalled.

In 'Las islas cambian de color', the coup d'état and the beginning of the repression against the Republicans are narrated, highlighting figures such as Margalida Roig Colomar, to give way to the landing of Bayo, the role of the Anti-Fascist Militia Committee and its temporary dominance of the island.

The documentary 'Jaén, Viento del Pueblo' places the viewer in the year 1936 and takes them to the present day, analyzing and pivoting around the processes of exhumation of the graves in the province of Jaén, the stories of relatives and experts

The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, who reincarnated herself countless times: false Russian dancer, silent film actress, scenographer and costume designer, writer, spiritist, Egyptologist, indefatigable traveler, mysterious and curious; an amazing 20th century woman who created the myth of Rudolph Valentino.

Bajo el signo libertario is a propaganda documentary, with the script and direction of Les (known for his articles in Solidaridad Obrera and the magazine Espectáculo) whose central theme is the reconstruction of the development of life in a libertarian community in the Aragonese town of Pina de Ebro.

Lágrimas rojas

The Moroccan Labyrinth