Over a period of more than twenty years, the Franco regime quietly orchestrated the exhumation and transport of more than 33,000 bodies from mass graves throughout Spain to El Valle de los Caídos, the monumental mausoleum built to glorify the fascist victory. 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. Facing legal and bureaucratic obstacles, the film uses new forensic technologies, like digital mapping and forensic reconstruction, to reconstruct what oblivion and oppression sought to conceal.

Dir. Manuel Correa | 84min | 2026 | Spain Norway

"On the trail of the earthly remains of the victims of Franco's regime in a film that combines modern technology and paper archives in a historical investigation based on the director's own research through Forensic Architecture" - CPH: DOX

"Both thought-provoking and heartwrenching, Manuel Correa’s documentary follows three grieving families and their fight to rescue their loved ones from this horrifying limbo....Monuments might crumble to the ground, but the memories of the perished will live on forever" - Guardian

"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" - Winner, Jury Award, Docs Barcelona

"photographs of the disappeared restore faces to people reduced by the state to quantities. They look back from another Spain, unaware of the monument that will one day contain them" - Gazettely

"In the face of a regime of invisibility that Francoism inherited and democracy has not deactivated, the Atlas of Disappearance returns place and name" - El Pais