Contracampos

While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she discovers the story of a secretly kept love, lived during the turbulent years of the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War.

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.

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A pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It reports on the demonstration held in Barcelona on December 27, 1937 to commemorate the capture of Teruel by the Republican forces.

The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office during the turbulent times of the Second Spanish Republic, the carnage of the Civil War and the hardships of the long post-war period and Franco's dictatorship — and survive until the sixties, when Spain was timidly beginning to change.

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A documentary made with homemade videos of the spanish exiled due to the dictatorship in Spain from 1939 to 1977.

This documentary is a vision of the Spanish civil war seen by the children of that time: sometimes as a game and other times as a dangerous adventure. A mixture of fascination and fear that was captured forever in the form of drawings.

"Operation Nikolai" is a documentary about the kidnapping and murder of Andreu Nin by Stalin's political police during the Spanish Civil War.

The military uprising of 1936 tried to eradicate all traces of the social transformation that had brought the Republic. There were villages like Guímara, in the Valley of Fornela (León), whose almost unanimous support to the Republic supposed a hard and systematic repression. This isolated village, of about 85 neighbors, suffered one of the most painful forms of punishment: deportation of adults to concentration camps, separating them from their minor children. In this documentary it is told the chronicle of this terrible repression that sought to subdue and subjugate the population through fear, trying to destroy family ties, solidarity networks between the people and personal and collective subsistence economy. The memory of lullabies from their mothers was the echo that reached their children from the forced exile who lived their elders.

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.

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

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.”

History of the anti-fascist guerrilla resistance in Granada.

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.

A documentary about the recovery of the historical memory of the Malaga town of Archidona, a journey through the history of Archidona from the Second Republic to the last years of the post-war period. A work that speaks, above all, about people, experiences, emotions and feelings.

The story of the concentration camp on San Simón Island (Ría de Pontevedra) during the years of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), told by its protagonists. Hours and hours of video recording resulted in this documentary which tries to reflect the emotion and tragedy of those years. A research project based on an oral history methodology.