When Naomi Garcia Pasmanick was growing up in San Francisco, she’d often hear her grandmother Aurita make offhanded comments about her disdain for fascists and respect for working class people. As Garcia Pasmanick grew older and got to know her extended family in the small fishing town of Moaña in Galicia, Spain, she began to learn more about her ancestors’ legacy — and of a labor movement that was crushed by repression, violence and persecution during Francisco Franco’s regime.

That legacy is the subject of Garcia Pasmanick’s 2024 documentary, Olas de Recuerdo ( Memories of Salt ), which makes its San Francisco premiere at the Roxie on Aug. 25 during an evening of short documentaries by women filmmakers.

Naomi Garcia Pasmanick’s family in the 1960s. (Courtesy of Naomi Garcia Pa

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