Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi present 'La bola negra' at Cannes, a tribute to Lorca and dissident love

At the Cannes Film Festival, Spanish directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (known as Los Javis) premiered 'La bola negra', a film intertwining three stories set in 1932, 1937, and 2017. The movie addresses historical memory and the repression of dissident loves under Franco's regime, serving as a love letter to poet Federico García Lorca. A key line states, 'Spain has many love stories buried in the fields,' echoing Leonard Cohen's remark about Spaniards not digging for Lorca's remains. The film was shot during the Spanish Civil War under bombings to combat fascism, and the Nazis attempted to burn it.