The partisans of remembrance

I had always heard people talk about the Maquis, those resistance fighters that after the Civil War refused to accept defeat. Men and women that fled to the woodland to continue the fight against fascism.

I heard many stories about them, some made up and some true, but I never imagined that I would have the opportunity to film them one day. This film is a journey with some of those partisans to a place in Spain’s history that very few visit, to those spots that gave them shelter and witnessed their struggle. Woodlands and towns that still remember what we never knew, or what we have forgotten.

Sharing this journey with them has been a privilege for us and an adventure difficult to forget. Being able to listen to them, watch them become combatants of word and remembrance. Knowing that they will continue to fight because for them the word defeat does not exist.

Javier Corcuera

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