JIFF26 Frontier

During World War 2, around 35,000 Jews snuck across the French border into Spain, fleeing Nazi oppression. This riveting Catalan thriller tells of this perilous but little-known crusade, and reveals how the ghosts of the still-recent Spanish Civil War affected the plight of Spaniards and Jews alike in the midst of intersecting conflicts.   In 1943, General Franco had blocked the path of Jewish refugees fleeing over the Pyrenees mountains. At a small border town, civil servant Manel Grau decides to go against the orders of his superiors and smuggle as many Jews as possible across the border. With the help of fellow Spaniard Juliana and French smugger Jerôme, and garnering the support of the villagers, they find themselves embroiled in a dangerous odyssey that jeopardises the safety of their families and the people they set out to help.  Shot in the stunning Pyrenees, Frontier is a powerful moral tale about the disasters of war and the power of solidarity.