After eighty years of silence, new forensic technologies help families reconstruct the fate of their relatives, whose bodies were secretly transferred to their executioner’s mausoleum. Faced with legal and bureaucratic obstacles, the film turns to archives and digital techniques to trace the disappeared to the Valley of the Fallen and recover what repression sought to erase.
Following its premiere at CPH:DOX 2026, Atlas of Disappearance arrives to shed light on the system and architecture that buried more than 30,000 people in the Valley of the Fallen, without their families’ knowledge. Manuel Correa, a member of Forensic Architecture, joins us to analyse this dark episode of our history — a wound that remains open in the country’s memory.
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Monday
11/05
20:45 h
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Renoir | Sala 5
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Tuesday
12/05
18:45 h
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Renoir | Sala 5
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CPH:DOX 2026
On a distant planet, a robot searches for minerals and signs of life. Light-years away, in an ancient mine, its inhabitants live surrounded by mineral waste, while astrobiologists investigate a hidden biosphere. Like Any Other Mortal weaves together documentary, flamenco and science fiction, questioning the boundaries between the living and the non-living.
In his first feature-length desktop documentary, Kevin B. Lee examines the traces of extremist propaganda. Through encounters with an artist, an activist, and a researcher, Afterlives shows how people reclaim these images as tools for insight and resistance, offering ways to find meaning in today’s flood of online violence.
Afterlives is one of the most singular films of this festival’s edition: the chronicle of an almost academic research project that unfolds in real time before our eyes. Kevin B. Lee masterfully applies
the desktop documentary format that he had already explored in previous
works, now finally in a feature film. A must-watch for video
essay fans.
The film recounts the racist attack in Hanau (Germany) on February 19, 2020, from the perspective of survivors and families. Nine young people were murdered for not appearing “German.” Over nearly five years, the director follows the grief, the fight for recognition, and the search for belonging among the victims’ families and friends in their own country.
Marcin builds an extraordinary work that, based on a specific event, exposes systemic racism and follows the families through their grief and memories, as they struggle for answers and are forced to become activists to demand justice. An essential piece for understanding contemporary Europe, which premiered at the Berlinale 2025.
Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of footage recovered from more than 20,000 archival sources. It is a love letter to Beirut that spans 70 years of cinema, television, home videos, and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche, shaped by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss
Thursday the 14th (18:30h) Editing ‘Do You Love Me’ with Qutaiba Barhamji.
Thursday the 14th (20:00h) The screening will be followed by a concert by Mar Pujol.
