Frontier

This remarkable historical thriller from Catalan director, screenwriter, and producer Judith Colell tells the gripping and incredible true story of the heroism of a Spanish village on the border with France in the Pyrenees during World War II. In 1943, a group of the town’s inhabitants, led by customs officer Manel Grau (Miki Esparbé), defied their country’s fascist regime to save Jews smuggled in from Nazi-occupied France, despite the shadow of recent trauma connected to the nation’s Civil War under Franco’s rule. Colell meticulously recreates this tense moment in history, shooting on vintage lenses and 35mm film, to evoke the desperation and anxiety of people trying to do the right and moral thing.