The Popular Culture Train

Based in Spain, Chilean director Carolina Espinoza has developed her work as a documentary filmmaker through social anthropology, a discipline in which she has a doctorate. The concern to highlight the memory of exile—and not only the Chilean one—is present since her first feature film, The Joy of Others (2009), which focused on the importance of the Chileans exiled in the fall of the dictatorship, and also in The Most Noble Operation (2020), in which she gave voice to the Spanish exiles who arrived in Chile in Winnipeg in 1939. Synopsis: This documentary narrates the Allende government's initiative known as the Popular Culture Train: 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 the provinces of the country.