DocsBarcelona
Negro limbo (Black Limbo)
A documentary about Spain’s colonial past in Guinea
Audiovisuals
As part of the DocsBarcelona festival, we present the documentary Negro limbo which deals with the obstacles still encountered when attempting to reconstruct Spain’s colonial past in Equatorial Guinea.
The impunity of Franco's dictatorship in the former Spanish Guinea persists to this day. In the late 1950s the regime hid its crimes against the movement for political independence and, whilst the rest of Africa was being liberated from European colonialism, Spain attempted to eradicate any claim to sovereignty. One of the movement’s most prominent leaders, Acacio Mañé, was arrested and his body never found. Sixty years on, two men decide to reopen investigations.
It took almost eight years to make this film, six of them devoted to research, to seeking out witnesses from the time and uncovering documents and home movies from the 1950s and 1960s, donated by the families of former colonists, which had never seen the light of day.
The film Negro limbo, premiered at the Seville Festival and selected by several international festivals, will be shown for the first time in Catalonia as part of Barcelona’s International Documentary Film Festival DocsBarcelona. The screening will also be attended by its director and producer, Lorenzo Benítez.
Negro limbo, Lorenzo Benítez, Spain, 2024, 75', original language (Spanish and Fang)
Directors: Lorenzo Benítez
This activity is part of DocsBarcelona
