Bringing Justice for Franco-Era Crimes in Spain

Expand Ascensión Mendieta enters the cemetery where her father’s remains are buried in a mass grave.  © Modesto Aranda Forty years on, though, the urge to remember is stronger than ever. “The Silence of Others,” a film made by Spanish director Almudena Carracedo and her husband and filmmaking partner Robert Bahar, explores how people wronged long ago are fighting for recognition and justice today. The film, which follows several Spaniards trying to uncover the fate of their loved ones or expose their tormentors, will have its New York premiere at the Human Rights Watch film festival on June…

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