The Grass Dwellers

Los habitantes del pasto

The memory of a hidden landscape.

Overview

Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still one of the Grass Dwellers. The only thing that he leaves from those years on the front is a collection of 28 letters in his own writing.

Production

Lágrima Films, Hiraeth Films, Instituto del Cine Madrid