El tren popular de la cultura

Based in Spain, Chilean director Carolina Espinoza has developed her work as a documentary filmmaker through social anthropology, a discipline in which she holds a PhD. Her concern for highlighting the memory of exile -and not only Chilean exile- has been present since her first feature film, La alegría de los otros (2009), which focused on the importance of Chilean exiles in the fall of the dictatorship, and also in La operación más noble (2020), in which she gave voice to the Spanish exiles who arrived in Chile on the Winnipeg in 1939.

Synopsis: This documentary narrates the initiative of the Allende government known as the Popular Train of Culture: a project that sought to bring culture to people without resources. This plan was a first step to achieve the ultimate goal of creating the National Institute of Arts and Culture, as well as art schools in all provinces of the country.