The Silence of Others
Co-directors:
Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo, Spain, 2018, doc. Spanish [EST], 96 min.
This award-winning documentary film tells the story of victims of Spain's 40-year
dictatorship, who continue to seek justice to this day...A 1977
amnesty law in Spain known as "the pact of forgetting" prohibits
legal action related to the oppression, torture, and murder of an estimated
100,000 people during Franco’s 40-year dictatorship. But for much of the
population – including the survivor who passes his torturer’s home every day,
the children of forcibly disappeared parents found buried in mass graves, and
parents still searching for their children seized at birth – there is no peace
in silence. Taking strength and inspiration from justice-seekers in Chile and
Guatemala, they continue to search. Speakers: Jim Jump, International Brigade Memorial Trust
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