La Era

La doble vida del faquir

La doble vida del faquir (The magicians) returns to the scene of a school in the Catalan town of Sant Julià de Vilatorta where, in 1937, in the midst of civil war, a film-maker in hiding and a group of orphaned children dressed up as sultans and explorers shot an exotic adventure film. The films protagonists relive those childhood days when they were able to switch their school smocks for oriental turbans, while reality imposed its own fancy dress ball with military uniforms and priests dressed in civilian garb.

Long Live Death

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?

Los ojos perdidos

Salvemos el Prado. El frente del arte en la Guerra Civil

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.

O resplandor das Atochas

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.

Gernika bonbardaketa

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 Contains testimonies from survivors and unpublished color images.

La segona pàtria

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.

Fuentes de la memoria

t narrates the repression suffered by the local population of Fuentes de Andalucía after the military coup of 1936.

Huérfanos del olvido

Between 1937 and 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, thousands of minors were evacuated by their own families from the Republican zone to the Soviet Union to prevent them from perishing in the indiscriminate bombings that the rebel army directed against the civilian population. Taking advantage of the 80th anniversary of this epic, a team went to Russia to record the testimonies of some of those “childrens of war.”

Historia de la guerrilla antifranquista en el Poniente granadino

History of the anti-fascist guerrilla resistance in Granada.

La Sauceda, de la utopía al horror

Documentary filmed between September 2012 and March 2013. It tells the story of a valley in the mountains that extends through the north of the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga, the last Republican bastion in the area when Franco's troops already occupied all of them. the nearby regions. La Sauceda was bombed and the town destroyed forever by the air force and four columns of Franco's army. The survivors were locked up in the Marrufo farmhouse, in the municipality of Jerez de la Frontera, where five or six people were shot every day. With the testimonies of the interviewees, everything that happened in those months from the summer of 1936 to the winter of 1937 is reconstructed and the work carried out by the Forum and the Association since 2011 to locate the mass graves is also narrated, in which in the summer of In 2012, the bodies of 28 people were exhumed.

La vida a través de Vega

The Asturian Valentín Vega is considered one of the most relevant photographers of the last century. He knew how to portray all the essential elements of daily life like no one else and at the same time exercise a devastating display of social criticism. After spending three years in prison for his political affiliation and managing to establish himself as a street photographer, he would continue to offer an unusual image of reality and daily life from the 1940s onwards.

Luisa Rendón Martell: La utopía truncada

Truncated Utopia tells the story of Luisa Rendón Martell, a republican activist who was retaliated against in the province of Cádiz during the civil war and Franco's regime.

Ortiz, général sans dieu ni maître

Documentary about the anarchist general Antonio Ortiz.

Sucedió en Grazalema

Narration of one of the most lacerating events in the history of this municipality in the Sierra de Cádiz: the murder of 15 neighbors, without trial or formation of any cause. Some of these victims had fled in September 1936 but ended up returning to the municipality, probably in February 1937. It was on that date that the town's Falangists arrested them and executed them, and not as previously thought in the summer of 1936. Several survivors and relatives of those massacres narrate what the arrests of the women and the shootings were like. They also talk about the exhumation of the bodies of these 15 women, where for many years family and friends have brought flowers.

Tierra encima

Félix Costa, an anarchist militant who has lived in exile since the end of the Civil War, discovers that the Administration has left him for dead and decides to return to Spain. As he tours the place where they say he was shot dead, he reflects on the validity of his struggle and the fact that he has fallen into oblivion.

Removendo a terra

A group of forensic doctors begins the exhumation of a mass grave in Vilagarcía de Arousa. This is the story of those who seek and those who seek them.

A volta dos nove

A story about the memory of the memory, which starts from the revenge perpetrated on October 15, 1936, when nine men were killed in Bayonne as a result of events that happened two days before, and which involved the death of a resident of that town and more than one Falangist .

Arde Madrid

A documentary, of incalculable power, that reflects the abrupt interruption of childhood through thirteen survivors who at the time of 1936 were between six and twenty-two years old. The film narrates his experiences during the conflict, his fears, his hunger, which became more acute after 1937 when Madrid was isolated by Franco's troops. The memories of the protagonists are interwoven with archival images and with the testimony of Eduardo Haro Tecglen and several other people, respecting the silences and pauses in which the interviewees relax the emotions that these memories stir up in them. A cinematic beast's blow where life becomes death: the story of a childhood lost in the midst of embers, hunger and blood.

La escuela fusilada

The documentary is about the destruction of the republican educational model. It narrates the cleansing that Spanish teachers underwent during and after the Civil War.