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The Revolutionary Cabinetmaker

The Revolutionary Cabinetmaker recounts the last days in the life of Enrique Hornillo, a Sevillian cabinetmaker and anarchist who was 26 years old at the time of the Spanish Coup of 1936. Like many of the residents of the Macarena neighborhood, he was a member of the armed resistance in the Macarena Gate and Plaza de San Marcos until the rebels took control of Seville. This documentary alternates the last moments in the life of Enrique, narrated by his nephew Luis, with interviews with three leading voices in Seville’s Collective Memory movement: community organizer Cecilio Gordillo, archeologist Elena Vera and Gonzalo Acosta, coordinator of Todos (…) los nombres.

Spanish Exile

Rubén, a Spanish filmmaker living abroad since 2009, explores the political and socioeconomic reasons behind the recent massive migration of Spain’s “Lost Generation”. In the process, he describes the Indignados movement from the POV of Spanish exiles and tells his own personal story.

From Silence to the Word

The terror following the Fascist victory of the coup d’etat of 1936 subjected Spain to the silencing of unpunished crimes and injustices, prolonged until this day. Not until the age of forty did director Ignacio Castrena learn of the nightmare that his father and grandparents had endured during the Spanish Civil War. After realizing that the consequences were still being felt in his family two generations later, Castrena felt motivated to continue digging into his family history to discover how the story of his grandfather, Ruperto, fit into the larger context of those defeated in the war.

Matta Checks

Cheques Matta are small format works of art, similar to that of an American Bank Draft which the painter Roberto Matta sent by mail to his friends with economic problems during the first years of the Military Dictatorship in Chile. The quantity of these works and how many are conserved today is unknown. Upon discovering some of these drawings, a search began to try to delve into their history and that of the people who received them.

The Disenchantment

For the first time ever, this Spanish cult documentary from 1976 is available for educational distribution in the United States. El Desencanto (The Disenchantment) is the collective story of the Paneros, a brilliant and tormented Spanish literary family whose eccentricities, incendiary declarations, and taboo-smashing exhibitionism turned them into a phenomenon in Spain in 1976, the year after the death of dictator Francisco Franco. The film is a national classic, valued and remembered both for the role it played in the country's transition to democracy and for the singular testimonies of the Panero family.

Nimble Fingers

Amidst the current tech-manufacturing boom in Hanoi, female migrant workers from the highlands of Northern Vietnam are seen as the perfect workers for exploitation because of their “nimble fingers” and their willingness to accept less than desirable working conditions. These women share their lives not just by allowing the filmmaker into their homes, but also through animated drawings they make of their work at the factory.