Dieciocho de julio, número 2 - Madrid(1936)

Songs for After a War(es)

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.

El acero libertario(es)

La defensa de Madrid(es)

Cirugía y recuperación(es)

Un año de guerra(es)

Hombres del porvenir(es)

The Grass Dwellers(es)

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.

Behind Natacha Rambova's Shadow(ca)

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.

Amour de vivre(fr)

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.

In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain(de)

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.

Las cerezas del exilio(en)

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.

De espalda al sol(en)

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”.

Jaén, Viento del Pueblo(en)

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

Spanish A.B.C.(en)

A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.

Extranjeros de sí mismos(es)

La doble vida del faquir(es)

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.

Rocío(es)

The film shows the genesis of the El Rocío pilgrimage and unveils the economic, socio-political and religious reasons and interests that nurture the phenomenon.

Unbändiges Spanien(de)

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

Más allá de la alambrada: la memoria del horror(es)

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell(es)

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.