The Silence of Others offers insight into grass-roots citizen activism that seeks to reverse the culture of forgetting that has helped cover up the crimes of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco (1939-1975) and challenge the amnesty laws that have blocked the prosecution of the perpetrators. The film will be of special interest to people who want to explore the following topics:

• activism
• amnesty
• civil war
• civil rights
• crimes against humanity
• criminal justice
• democracy
• fascism
• forgiveness
• Franco
• Francoism
• historical amnesia
• historical erasure
• historical memory
• historical monuments
• human rights
• international law
• jurisprudence
• justice
• nationalism
• organizing
• The Pact of Forgetting
• peace
• political dissidence
• political monuments
• political organizing
• propaganda
• remembrance
• Spain
• state violence
• transitional justice
• universal jurisdiction