This school year our class of 2nd Batxillerat is working on a project that refers to our past, to the period between the last years of our Civil War 1938 and the arrival of the democracy in 1978. We have had the back of the Generalitat de Catalunya and of our Town Hall. The whole experience has been wisely guided and assessed by Manel Dalmau (a documentarist) and our teacher of History Ramon Jordana. We have divided the class in six groups and each group did a documentary about a different story. First, with the History teacher, we carried out a research to know what life was like in those far away years. Afterwards we learnt how to make a film with Manel. He taught us how to handle a professional camera, how to set a film, how to write a script, etc. We saw and analyse many films too, to know the different things we could do. We had a limit of only 10 minutes for each story, and the six stories will make a film of one hour. The stories are: The Last Photography, Café Afternoons , The Missing People’s Labyrinth, Sex in Difficult Times, Sixteen and Already a Soldier, and Imperfect Triangle. We are going to present it in March in the cinema of our town, and then in Salamanca, Madrid, Valencia, and there is the possibility of showing it in Colombia. We have worked a lot during the first and part of the second term, but we have learnt and enjoyed it a lot, and now we are very proud of our work and we hope the people in our town will enjoy it too.

Below you can listen to a song that represented a whole generation of Catalans that lived throughout that time.