Many years have passed since Saturraran women's prison closed its doors in 1944. Thanks to the people working to recover the historical memory, numerous black points of the Civil War are gradually coming to light. Even so, the silence continues to reign. The list of forgotten names is long and there is still so much to be remembered...
Almas sin fronteras: La historia de la Brigada Abraham Lincoln
Quando i tedeschi non sapevano nuotare
Lágrimas rojas
An audiovisual chronicle of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia. Memorias Rotas centers on a group of republican fighters leaded by Commander José Moreno. The group disappears as they fail trying to escape by sea in the border between Galicia and Asturias and nobody ever knows about them.
Kirill can never see his hometown again: he fled Russia when Ukraine was attacked. His friend, Daniel, makes the journey and “cans Moscow” for him. Kirill discovers his “reconfigured” apartment; his bicycle hanging on the wall watches over his remaining comrades. In snowy Moscow, the lights are shining for the holidays. Kirill looks at the images: engulfed passers-by, war posters: “This is not my city”.
Saud now lives in Paris, caring with devotion and tenderness for his two young children while closely following the drama in Gaza. “It's hard to be far away.” He speaks sadly of his situation as a Palestinian citizen of Israel. When he accompanies his daughter to school, they both stick up placards for the liberation of Palestine...
A documentary about how Republican forces lost to Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
Defiance is in the air in this evocative newsreel footage of anti-fascist solidarity rallies, after the Battle of Cable Street.
We Protest: 80,000 descend on Hyde Park to demonstrate against Hitler’s antisemitism.
Los últimos guerrilleros - Historia de la A.G.I. (Agrupación guerrillera de Levante)
Libere
A feature-length documentary based on film reports from the Spanish civil war.
A portrait in seven fragments of Paolo Gobetti, an eclectic figure who, amid his tireless activity in Italian cinema and cultural landscape, founded the National Film Archive of Resistance (Archivio nazionale cinematografico della Resistenza, ANCR).
Toma de Belchite y Teruel
¿Por qué morir en Madrid?
Presos del silencio
The Moroccan Labyrinth
Cautivos en la arena
In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisoner in the SS Photographic Service, hiding, between 1943 and 1945, around 20,000 negatives that later will be presented as evidence during several trials conducted against Nazi war criminals after World War II.