One Hundred Children Waiting For a Train, by Ignacio Agüero
(1988 | Chile | M/12 | 56min. | Portuguese subtitles)

Friday July 10, 9.30pm — Cineteatro Camacho Costa, Odemira

A documentary about a film workshop for children given by Alicia Vega, a teacher in a marginal quarter of Santiago, to kids whose common characteristic is that they have never been to the movies. One hundred years after the invention of cinema one hundred children go to the movies for the first time . They tell their experience in a film they shall make with drawings on paper frames.

Ignacio Agüero (born 1952, Santiago, Chile) made his first films during the Pinochet dictatorship, while also working in advertising. He later co-created Franja del NO, the opposition’s television campaign that helped defeat Pinochet in the 1988 plebiscite. His documentary work has been the subject of retrospectives and has received awards in several countries, including the Grand Prize at FIDMarseille (2016 and 2019) and the award for Best Latin American Film at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival (2019). He is a professor of Film at the University of Chile and is involved in organizing Cero en Conducta, an initiative that offers filmmaking workshops for children.

The screening will be introduced by Catarina Boieiro and Stefanie Baumann, co-directors of Doc’s Kingdom.

Tickets and more information here.

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In partnership with the Municipality of Odemira, the Doc’s Kingdom Sessions in Odemira are organised throughout the year, in anticipation of the International Documentary Film Seminar, an annual meeting initiated in 2000, in Serpa (Alentejo), taking place in Odemira since 2023.