Líneas de fuego

Head in the Clouds(en)

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.

Paseo(es)

Paseo por una guerra antigua(es)

Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria, a place that still preserves in walls and buildings the terrifying traces of one of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War.

Carmen and the Reds(es)

Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.

Uno del millón de muertos(es)

Collin(de)

Man in Hiding(es)

Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.

The Anarchist's Wife(es)

"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.

El rey y la reina(es)

1939(en)

In 1939, after the end of the Civil War, and in the midst of a collective failure of Spanish society, a young Republican will seek revenge, thus starting a wheel of unstoppable violence. His initial cruelty will turn against him, and he will be relentlessly pursued by the Guardia Civil.

Viento Apacible(es)

A young student becomes frustrated by realizing that she knows the names of many battles and fronts of the Spanish Civil War but knows little about the feelings and emotions of those who lived through the conflict. This leads her to continue researching and discovering the "War Ballads" that will take her on a personal journey that she will want to share with the world.

The Internationalist(en)

A disillusioned Australian photographer who once dreamed of glory as a documentarian of the human condition discovers his real grandfather was a heroic war correspondent who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War and, alongside a rebel journalist, goes on a quest to find him (and himself) before his nurse turned resistance fighter grandmother passes away to ultimately redeem himself.

Endless Night(gl)

Anxo returns to his home village in the Galician countryside. There, he is greeted with concern by the victorious and the defeated, who see in him the danger of diving back into their silenced memories.

Con la vida hicieron fuego(es)

The sailor Quico Carola, alleged war hero of the Francoist side, emigrated to America and amassed a great fortune. Fifteen years later he returns to Ferrera (Asturias), his homeland, in search of a wife who makes him forget his late girlfriend. There he will see his old friends and Armandina, the widow of a Republican shot during the Spanish civil war.

The Other Tree of Guernica(es)

A group of children evacuated from Spain to Belgium are waiting for the Civil War end which will allow them to go back home.

The Spirit of the Beehive(es)

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.

Five Cartridges(de)

It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an international brigade is badly wounded he gives his five comrades a message which he divides up and secretes into in five cartridges. All five shells must reach the battalion in order for the message to be relayed. But Frenchman Pierre can’t bear the heat of the Sierra. When he leaves their hide-out to drink from a well he is hit by an enemy bullet.

Madrid(es)

Hans, a German director, is in Madrid to film a television production about the capital and the Civil War, 50 years after it occurred. Accompanied by Lucía, his editor, and Goyo, his cinematographer, he films shots of the modern city, searching for spaces and people related to its past. At the same time, he views materials related to the past. In this search, Hans questions the point of his project, and disagrees with his producers until he discovers a project that he is passionate about.

Mirror(ru)

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

The Devil's Backbone(es)

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.