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What House Are You From?: a documentary about time, memory and family

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 535 words · By Ricardo Figueira
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What to know about What House Are You From?: a documentary about time, memory and family

Portuguese-Spanish film director and artist Ana Pérez-Quiroga focuses on her mother's memories in her documentary, 'What House Are You From?

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What happened

Portuguese-Spanish film director and artist Ana Pérez-Quiroga focuses on her mother's memories in her documentary, 'What House Are You From?

Why it matters

The film delves into the life of Angelita who was taken from Spain to the then Soviet Union at the age of four, during the civil war.

Common ground

"What House Are You From?" This is the question posed by the Portuguese-Spanish artist and director Ana Pérez-Quiroga, who gives her name to the documentary that centres on her mother, Angelita.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The passage of time, the relationship between mother and daughter and the feeling of belonging to the various places and cultures that Ana's mother experienced are themes that are always present in the film.”
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No evidence confirms the film's thematic focus on time, mother-daughter relationships, or cultural belonging.
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Claim 2: “Portuguese-Spanish film director and artist Ana Pérez-Quiroga focuses on her mother's memories in her documentary, 'What House Are You From?'”
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Multiple web search results independently confirm Ana Pérez-Quiroga's documentary focuses on her mother's memories of exile during the Spanish Civil War. Three distinct sources (blog, documentary screening, interview) corroborate the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is a literary reference book compiled by Julia Eccleshare, children's book editor at British newspaper The Guardian. It was published in 2009 by …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alfonsina Carolina Storni (22 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Los ricos no piden permiso is a 2016 Argentine telenovela produced by Pol-ka and broadcast by Canal 13, which premiered on 11 January 2016 and ended on 26 December 2016. Starring Agustina Cherri, Gonz…
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Claim 3: “She lived in Kherson, in what is now Ukraine, in Kazakhstan, in a small village in Siberia and finally in Moscow, where she went to university.”
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No evidence confirms Angelita's residence in Kherson, Kazakhstan, Siberia, or Moscow, or her university attendance in Moscow.
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Claim 4: “The grape harvest at the family home serves as a metaphor here with the film mixing past and present.”
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Claim 5: “Between the ages of four and 24, she lived in various boarding schools, always in very closed circles with other Spanish children, also war refugees, with lessons in her mother tongue: only later did she learn Russian.”
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No sources provide information about Angelita's education in boarding schools, language learning, or interactions with other refugees.
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Claim 6: “'What House Are You From?' had its world premiere at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival last year and will hit the screens of several Portuguese cities on 16 April.”
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Claim 7: “The film delves into the life of Angelita who was taken from Spain to the then Soviet Union at the age of four, during the civil war.”
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While web search results and Wikipedia entries discuss the Spanish Civil War and Soviet Union, there is no direct evidence confirming Angelita's specific relocation to the Soviet Union during the conflict.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Milicianas, female fighters, fought in the Spanish Civil War. They came from a culture with iconic fighters, and where women had been recently empowered through direct political engagement in politica…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Women in 1930s Francoist Spain experienced major changes to marriage. Civil marriages that took place between 1932 and 1939 were annulled, and only if both partners were Roman Catholic were they permi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Women in the Communist Party of Spain were highly active, the most visible figure in the movement being Dolores Ibárruri, who joined in its early years. The Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera pushed the…
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Claim 8: “She hasn't forgotten her past as a plastic artist either with the film portraying installations and performances she has made on the theme of her mother's story. Managing to combine these two facets, she says, was the biggest challenge during editing.”
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Claim 9: “It was a multi-year project that took her to various points in Russia and Ukraine before the large-scale invasion and outbreak of the current war in 2022.”
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Claim 10: “She then met her Portuguese husband and moved to the estate in the centre of Portugal where the family has a vineyard.”
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No evidence confirms Angelita's marriage to a Portuguese man or her settlement in a vineyard estate in Portugal.
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Claim 11: “Estranged from her family and her home country, she only returned to Spain as an adult, trained in medicine, after Stalin's death.”
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No evidence was found in web search results or Wikipedia entries to confirm Angelita's return to Spain after Stalin's death or her medical training.
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Claim 12: “Taken from Spain to the then Soviet Union as a child, as a refugee from the Spanish Civil War, she ended up leaving one conflict and encountering another: the Second World War.”
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Evidence about the Spanish Civil War and World War II exists, but no sources specifically link Angelita to experiencing both conflicts as a refugee. The connection remains unverified.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Women who were part of the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War were involved both on the home front and on the battlefield. The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931 saw the rights of w…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Milicianas, female fighters, fought in the Spanish Civil War. They came from a culture with iconic fighters, and where women had been recently empowered through direct political engagement in politica…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milicianas_in_the_Spanish_Civi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Women in the Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War were part of a broad leftist coalition founded ahead of the 1936 Spanish general elections. The Second Spanish Republic represented a changing cultu…
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Claim 13: “Angelita and her sister returned to Spain in the 1950s, more than 20 years after leaving the country. Their parents, republicans, were spared Franco's repression and the wave of shootings during the civil war, although their father spent some time in prison.”
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No sources provide information about Angelita's return to Spain in the 1950s, her parents' political status, or her father's imprisonment.
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Claim 14: “The film is about time. That's why we filmed two harvests, two years of harvests in a row. I'm interested in chronological time. I want you to understand that the film has to do with this idea of time, but there's also another concept behind it, which is that of fracture. Who do we belong to, in terms of identity?”
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Claim 15: “Angelita didn't pass on this traumatic experience to her children, quite the opposite: 'My mum is a shy and introverted person. She speaks little about this period, but when she does, she has never, as far back as I can remember, given us the idea that this experience was a trauma. I've always felt that it was (for her) an adventure,' Ana Pérez-Quiroga told Euronews.”
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No sources verify Ana Pérez-Quiroga's statements about her mother's perception of wartime experiences.
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