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The Silence of Others
Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar
USA, ES • 2018 • 95’ • VO/OV st Fr/En
Without justice, there can be no mourning. The victims of Franco's regime know this; so do their descendants. Filmed over a six-year period, the film follows the survivors in their fight against an amnesia fed by the Spanish State. Yet thanks to the universal jurisdiction principle, a judge from as far away as Argentina breaks the "pact of silence" of a European country that has been held up as a model of democratic transition. And, in that very moment, a historic process begins. What happens when the truth breaks out? This is more than a film. It is a masterful and timely fresco on the power of justice and a committed citizenry.
