Juan Pablo Menchón

Mars is invaded by humans.

Lucas is nine years old and El Pira is eight, thought he seems older, like all dogs. In the immensity of the countryside, in the darkest of nights, they wait. A flapping of wings from afar, that small colored ball, one loose tooth, the bicycle's chain, Astro's rocket launching, the light of the steam in the pool, Bela's gaze, the juice, and the cookies. In the horizon, the first lights. Lucas switches off the flashlight they were playing with and gets ready. Sometimes a scary story can also be a story of courage.

Continuing the series started with Intervened Events (2014), the Buenos Aires Film Museum presents the second feature film made entirely with material from its archives and by fourteen outstanding Argentine filmmakers. These are nine issues of Cine Escuela Argentino, a project created in 1948 by the Argentine Ministry of Education during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. The latter promoted “the use of the cinematographer as a didactic assistant destined to complete the educational and cultural work, mainly in what concerns exalting the feelings of the nationality, with the heroic example of the heroes, Christian morality and the multiple civil duties, great and small”. Hence, most of the films produced by Cine Escuela Argentino were aimed at scientific dissemination and tourism promotion of the various regions of the country. (Museum of Cinema)

Amando is the last surviving steam train engineer in the country. At 95, he remains as active as he was in his days on the tracks. Fernanda, his granddaughter, wants to record his present as an instructor at the Rosario train driver school and railway legend, but an unexpected secret twists the story, and the search for the film becomes more personal. Fernanda decides to share a video camera with him, and so they embark on a journey that will become a rite of passage for granddaughter and grandfather, a journey of trains and cinema.

Mars is invaded by humans.

Mars is invaded by humans.

Lucas is nine years old and El Pira is eight, thought he seems older, like all dogs. In the immensity of the countryside, in the darkest of nights, they wait. A flapping of wings from afar, that small colored ball, one loose tooth, the bicycle's chain, Astro's rocket launching, the light of the steam in the pool, Bela's gaze, the juice, and the cookies. In the horizon, the first lights. Lucas switches off the flashlight they were playing with and gets ready. Sometimes a scary story can also be a story of courage.

Lucas is nine years old and El Pira is eight, thought he seems older, like all dogs. In the immensity of the countryside, in the darkest of nights, they wait. A flapping of wings from afar, that small colored ball, one loose tooth, the bicycle's chain, Astro's rocket launching, the light of the steam in the pool, Bela's gaze, the juice, and the cookies. In the horizon, the first lights. Lucas switches off the flashlight they were playing with and gets ready. Sometimes a scary story can also be a story of courage.

Continuing the series started with Intervened Events (2014), the Buenos Aires Film Museum presents the second feature film made entirely with material from its archives and by fourteen outstanding Argentine filmmakers. These are nine issues of Cine Escuela Argentino, a project created in 1948 by the Argentine Ministry of Education during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. The latter promoted “the use of the cinematographer as a didactic assistant destined to complete the educational and cultural work, mainly in what concerns exalting the feelings of the nationality, with the heroic example of the heroes, Christian morality and the multiple civil duties, great and small”. Hence, most of the films produced by Cine Escuela Argentino were aimed at scientific dissemination and tourism promotion of the various regions of the country. (Museum of Cinema)

Amando is the last surviving steam train engineer in the country. At 95, he remains as active as he was in his days on the tracks. Fernanda, his granddaughter, wants to record his present as an instructor at the Rosario train driver school and railway legend, but an unexpected secret twists the story, and the search for the film becomes more personal. Fernanda decides to share a video camera with him, and so they embark on a journey that will become a rite of passage for granddaughter and grandfather, a journey of trains and cinema.

Amando is the last surviving steam train engineer in the country. At 95, he remains as active as he was in his days on the tracks. Fernanda, his granddaughter, wants to record his present as an instructor at the Rosario train driver school and railway legend, but an unexpected secret twists the story, and the search for the film becomes more personal. Fernanda decides to share a video camera with him, and so they embark on a journey that will become a rite of passage for granddaughter and grandfather, a journey of trains and cinema.