Atlas Of Disappearance

After 80 years of silence, new forensic technologies help a group of families reconstruct the fate of their relatives, whose bodies were stolen and secretly transferred to the mausoleum of their executioner. Facing legal and bureaucratic obstacles, the film uses digital techniques and archival materials to trace the disappeared to the Valley of the Fallen, restoring what repression tried to erase.

Directed by: Manuel Correa

Screenwriter: Manuel Correa

Produced by: Artefacto

In collaboration with: Perspektiv Produksjon y OID

Executive Production: Anna Giralt Gris Jorge Caballero Ramos Emil Nygård Manuel Correa

Director of Photography: Manuel Correa

Editing: Manuel Correa Iván Guarnizo

Original Music: Simón Mesa Giraldo

Sound Design: Emil Nygård

Festival Participation:

“Atlas of Disappearance responds to a long-standing effort to conceal the violence of the Franco regime through silence, bureaucracy, and institutional resistance. Despite recent legislative progress, exhumation projects remain stalled, leaving families—some now in their third or fourth generation—without answers, without graves, and without closure.

To address this situation, I founded the Documentary Research Office (OID), a transdisciplinary research unit composed of geographers, filmmakers, architects, and artists. This collective draws inspiration from my experience working with the Forensic Architecture project in London. Our mission is to restore visibility to what was meant to remain hidden: mass graves, forced transfers, detention centers, and other erased geographies of violence.

Through digital mapping, forensic reconstruction, and situated testimony, OID works to create a shared and accessible archive of truth, grounded in rigorous research and collective care. This film brings that work to the screen, bringing together data and memory, space and history, so that those who have suffered disappearance may find a place to mourn, remember, and demand justice.”
— Manuel Correa, director.