One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train

Name: Cien niños esperando un tren
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1990-06-01
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Alicia Vega

Original title: Cien niños esperando un tren

1988
55m

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

313

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One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (1988)

Documentary

"Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a ... Read all"Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under the auspices of the Cath... Read all"Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under the auspices of the Catholic church. The hundred or so children involved had never seen a movie, and in the worksh... Read all

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IMDb RATING

8.0/10

313

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination

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Trivia
Alicia spent 30 years doing this workshop, until 2015; It reached approximately 6,500 boys and girls and in 2019 it was nominated for the National Award for Performing and Audiovisual Arts, which was finally won by Ramón Griffero.

Connections
Features The Arrival of a Train (1896)

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10/10

A documentary that shows the reality and at the same time the surprise of the first encounter with cinema.

A documentary that shows the reality lived in Chile at the end of the 20th century and that continues until these days, but no longer with access to cinema, but to other kinds of things. In this one it is seen how the mind of the children releases the imagination when seeing the films and the inventions that set the simulations of the cinema.

Alicia spent 30 years doing this workshop, until 2015; It reached approximately 6,500 boys and girls and in 2019 it was nominated for the National Award for Performing and Audiovisual Arts, which was finally won by Ramón Griffero.