Franco dictatorship resistance cinema screens in Berlin
The Babylon Cinema of Berlin will screen 11 Catalan films produced during the Franco regime as part of their series of ‘radical, transgressive and underground’ films.
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114,000 families still searching for missing loved ones from the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime
Amnesty International has released information suggesting that over 114,000 families from the Spanish state still have no solution to the disappearance of their loved ones as a result of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. They have asked the Government to take responsibility on this “gross violation of human rights”.
Spain urged to pay tribute to Catalan president executed by Franco
Catalan vice-president, Josep Lluís Carod Rovira, asks the Spanish Government to avoid obstacles and to join Catalonia in honouring president Lluís Companys by declaring the trial that condemned him to death null and void
Tribute in France to Catalan president arrested by Nazis and killed by Franco after the Civil War
A commemorative plaque is to honour Lluís Companys in the French town of La Baule in Brittany, where he was arrested on 13 August 1940, exactly 70 years ago.
Photos from Franco?s dictatorship return to Barcelona streets
A street exhibition shows large scale pictures representative of Franco?s times in the same places in which they were taken. The photos focus on the political dimension of the dictatorship: Franco?s repression and the resistance movements.