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Three women whose lives are shattered by ISIS travel intertwined journeys on two continents to find their shared destiny in fighting back.

On 1 October 2017, during the Catalan independence referendum, Marta Torrecillas was violently dragged from a polling station by police. Her image and voice message went viral within hours, turning her into an international symbol of state violence. Days later, when medical reports contradicted her initial belief that her fingers were broken, she became the target of a brutal media backlash. Harassed, threatened and diagnosed with PTSD, Marta fights to reclaim her name and dignity. An intimate reflection on sisterhood, care and healing in the aftermath of public violence. Refusing to let a viral image define her, Marta’s story becomes a moving exploration of resilience, solidarity and the urgent need for truth and accountability in the digital age.

Throughout a physical and temporal journey through Spanish lands, Footnotes is based on personal and family memory, which very soon becomes integrated into collective memory, to compile all types of voices, looks and gestures that speak of the Civil War. , Francoism, the transition and the present, in an attempt to discover the complex universe that revolves around the Spanish historical memory of the 20th century.

When filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki fled her native island of Crete as a young adult, she hoped to leave her violent childhood behind her. But in Spain, her memories are reawakened when a man asks her to make a film about him and his violence.