¿Por qué morir en Madrid?
A documentary made with homemade videos of the spanish exiled due to the dictatorship in Spain from 1939 to 1977.
Contracampos is the attempt to (re)build a landscape. A recreational area and a shooting range in the west of Asturies, which, between 1937 and 1943, housed a Francoist concentration camp through which thousands of Republicans passed – firstly militiamen, later guerrillas and their relatives. Sharing a leisurely observation with the viewer, the film intends to resignify that space, giving it back its political meaning. But it is not a question of showing –of filming– the invisible, but rather of showing what is missing in what exists today. What was and is no longer, not even in people's memories.
Presos del silencio
Que mi nombre no se borre de la historia
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.
Brigadistas
After the discovery of a suitcase hidden in the family home of Francisco Martínez Gascón, known as Kautela, a photojournalist who lived through the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of the rebel side, his granddaughter decides to carry out an investigation into his life and work.
The memory of a defeat, a barbarism: the destruction at the dawn of the civil war of people who fought for freedom, a group of anarchists from A Coruña located in the Atochas area. Through valuable witnesses and historical images a reconstruction of a metaphorical episode in the history of the country. This projection is made in collaboration with its author and the Commission for the Recovery of Historical Memory.
Documentary about the bombing of Gernika carried out by Nazi aviation in support of Franco's troops. Contains testimonies from survivors and unpublished color images.
The victory of the fascist army in the Spanish civil war caused a mass exodus of republicans who had to take refuge wherever they could. Mexico, led by its president, Lázaro Cárdenas, was the only country that openly supported the republican cause and opened its doors to thousands of Catalans who found their second homeland in that land. This documentary aims to be a tribute to all the exiles and the people who welcomed them. "Mexico, you have opened your doors and your hands to the wanderer, the wounded, the exiled, the hero..." Pablo Neruda.
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand people managed to elude their pursuers, and probably also avoided being killed, thanks to the heroic and very efficient efforts of the Ponzán Team, a brave group of people — mountain guides, forgers, safe house keepers and many others —, led by Francisco Ponzán Vidal, who managed to save their lives, both on one side and the other of the border between Spain and France.
A definitive review of the long and arduous journey of the works of Spanish Artistic Heritage during the Spanish Civil War. The filmmakers travel the tortuous way back from Madrid to Geneva, passing through Valencia and Figueres, interviewing the protagonists of that unrepeatable feat.
La Historia Enterrada
Los últimos guerrilleros - Historia de la A.G.I. (Agrupación guerrillera de Levante)
In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Second Republic moves to Valencia. In this situation, several Valencian artists and intellectuals decide to build four fallas — satirical plasterboard sculptures created to be burnt — to mock fascism.
Between 1939 and 1956, the Franco regime shot more than 2,000 republicans in Paterna. They were years of terror, of silence, of arbitrariness, of planned and systematic elimination of any progressive vestige. The documentary portrays the collective effort of the people of Paterna to recover the memory and dignity of those who died defending democracy. Shown through the point of view of those protagonists who were silenced and those voices condemned to oblivion.
The documentary captures one of the most silenced chapters of the Civil War in Malaga. In fact, barely a line appears about this massive exodus in the history books. However, despite the passage and silence of seven decades, that event remained very much alive within numerous Malaga families.
Goazen gudari danok is a documentary that recounts the battle of San Miguel and its importance for the creation of the Basque Government.
Documentary about the participation of the International Brigades in February 1937 in containing the advance of the rebel troops after the fall of Malaga.