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Memory Cinema on the Spanish Civil War Highlighted at San Sebastián Festival

The San Sebastián Film Festival, as last year, supports remembrance of the July 1936 military uprising and Franco dictatorship by screening fiction and documentaries illuminating these events.


Clara Fontaine
Clara Fontaine
September 26, 2026  ·  1 min read
B-Empire Magazine
Brief

The San Sebastián Film Festival continues its commitment to the remembrance of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship. As in the previous year, it presents several fiction films and documentaries that shed light on the July 1936 military uprising and its consequences.

These screenings also serve as a form of atonement, notably by showing films that were once censored, thereby contributing to a better understanding and recognition of this historical period that has often been denied or forgotten.

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