Imagine not knowing, for decades, the fate of your parents or other family members, who were the victims of forced disappearances organized by an authoritarian regime. That has long been a reality for people in Spain. After all, Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, who led the overthrow of the republic and then ruled from 1939 until his death in 1975, still casts a long, and often painful, shadow. Atlas of Disappearance (Atlas de la Desaparición), a new documentary from Colombian filmmaker and researcher Manuel Correa (The Shape of Now), is trying to change that by confronting the legacy of forced disappearances during his regime’s reign after 80 years of silence.
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Following an investigation to help find victims’ earthly remains and shed light on a dark part of Spanish history, the doc combines cutting-edge technology, such as forensic architecture, and paper archives in a
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