The First Look

In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in 1947, which became, almost unintentionally, a space of freedom and pure experimentation until its closure in 1976.

• franco regime (francoism)
• spanish history
• cinema history
• film school
• film censorship
• spanish cinema
• documentary
• experimental spanish cinema
• european cinema