On Thursday, April 3, 2025, the Iberian Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley screenedOlas de recuerdo (Memories of Salt), a 30-minute documentary directed by Naomi García Pasmanick in B-4 Dwinelle (Berkeley Language Center). Pasmanick, an alumna of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (UC Berkeley ‘15), conducted a series of intimate interviews in 2019 with her Galician family members, reflecting on their childhood, their involvement in the anarcho-syndicalist movement of the early 1930s, and the repression they faced following the Spanish Civil War.
Set in Moaña, Galicia, where it first premiered in September 2024, the documentary explores themes of memory and identity, intertwining the realities of war, persecution, migration, and exile with intimate family narratives of resistance, resilience, and community, focusing especially on the strength and courage of women.
The screening was followed by a Q&A with Pasmanick, moderated by Anahit Manoukian, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and coordinator of the Iberian Studies working group.
