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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Josep, it uses stark, expressive animation to confront political violence through memory, witness, and moral unease, balancing intimate human perspective with the scars of history.
02
Why this pick
Its animated testimony about displacement and survival shares Josep’s compassionate attention to refugees, treating historical trauma through a personal story rather than detached reportage.
03
Why this pick
Its hand-crafted animation follows endurance under a repressive regime with the same blend of grave historical stakes, empathy for the vulnerable, and resilience through storytelling.
04
Why this pick
Less overtly political but similarly tender and hand-drawn, it shares Josep’s melancholy period atmosphere, sparse dialogue, and profound feeling for people left behind by a changing world.
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01 / THE STORY
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Josep
Serge
Robert
Grand-père Serge
Valentin
Le Père
La Mère
