21. UNDER|DOX 08 – 14 OKT 2026

In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and throughout the early years of Franco’s dictatorship, dozens of concentration camps became instruments for the repression and liquidation of Republican forces. Eloy Enciso confronts this collective amnesia by mobilising the powers of fiction to rethink cinema’s encounter with history, memory and oblivion.
Elsa, a Spanish artist based in Berlin, is travelling through Spain scouting locations for a future documentary film on Franco’s camps. Interwoven with Elsa’s present-day journey is the tragic story of Carmen and Ángel, lovers torn apart by the defeat of 1939 and interned in the victors’ camps. Later, carried in voice-over by the lovers of 1939 over images of contemporary Spain, the letters dissolve into a shared interior monologue, as the spectral time of the camps overlays the present.
“Letters from an Inner Exile” gives form to a negative memory. What it summons cannot be seen, touched or heard. Its extraordinary visual and sonic richness, frame after frame, exists only as the ground – or the negative – of what remains withdrawn, awaiting recognition. – FID Marseille

Eloy Enciso
ES 2026 | German Premiere
International Competition Award FID Marseille
109 min | Spanish, Galician