Directed by Lorenzo Benitez • Documentary • 2024 • 75 minutes
The secrets and impunity of the Franco dictatorship in the former Spanish Guinea continue to be present in the Spanish democracy. The Franco regime managed to hide its crimes and torture against the National Liberation Movement of Equatorial Guinea at the end of the 1950s. One of its main leaders, Acacio Mañe, was arrested and made to disappear. Now his family demands justice and reparation from Africa. Some 1,500 Equatorial Guineans suffered colonial repression in those initial years of the independence process. However, in the old metropolis only the idyllic and racist stories of the old settlers have transcended, which still permeate the Spanish collective memory.
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