Official Selection 2010 FESTIVAL DU FILM DE STRASBOURG 2010 PHILADELPHIA DOCUEMENTARY & FICTION FESTIVAL
Best Direction 2010 BRUXELLES FICTION & DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Director: Jill Daniels Producer: Jill Daniels Writer: Jill Daniels Genre: Documentary Country: United Kingdom Duration: 41 minutes Original Format: DVCAM Leading Actress: Judith Mora Toral Leading Actor: Jose Antonio Garcia Photography: Jill Daniels Editing: Jill Daniels
Synopsis of the Film: During the Spanish civil war and its aftermath, thousands of people were executed and thrown into mass unmarked graves. Today people in Spain are beginning to face up to a past that has remained for 70 years an uneasy alliance of a determination to forget. In Not Reconciled, historic accounts of the civil war and Franco's regime, novels, diaries of republican and fascist fighters, are combined with observation of the everyday lives of the villagers. The voices of the ghosts of Rosa and Carlos, young Spanish civil war republicans echo over the ruins of Belchite in Aragon, Northern Spain as they wait for the discovery of their unmarked graves. They tell the story of the town destroyed in a three week long battle and left just as it was, talk about their part in the fighting, quarrel, make up, discuss philosophy and history and women's rights and the terrible aftermath of the civil war. The sounds of wind, the echoes of voices, the crumbling ruins, the slow silent walks of tourists and the seeming oblivion of the present day town next door to those who lost their lives, are overlaid with conversations by the film maker with present day Belchite inhabitants as she tries to penetrate their indifference.
Bio-filmography of the Director: Jill Daniels was born in Manchester, England. She teaches film and video at the University of East London, England.
· Not Reconciled (2009) 41 min, colour, video · Small Town Girl (2007) 82 min, colour, video · Lost in Gainesville (2005 ) 55 min, colour, video · Spirits (2003) 5 min, colour, video · Fool's Gold (2002) 55 min, colour, video · Next Year In Lerin (2000) 45 min, colour, video · Killing Time (2000) 3 min, colour, video · Skin Deep (1998) 40 min, colour video · Assault (1994) 11 min, colour, 16mm · Secret Heart (1994) 25 min, colour, 16mm · Exiles (1992) 45 min, colour, 16mm · I'm In Heaven (1989) colour, 30 min, 16mm · Debacle (1977) b&w, 16mm · Description (1974) 37 min, b&w, 16mm, Double Screen · Rooms/Figures (1973) 10 min, b&w, 16mm
Annual Program Without Frontiers - Not Reconciled
