Name: "Esperanza, las vendedoras del tren" | Documentary Screening
Start: 2022-05-09T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-05-09
Location: Mexican Cultural Institute DC

"Esperanza, las vendedoras del tren" | Documentary Screening

The Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C. is committed to enriching the relationship between Mexico and the United States by sharing Mexico's vibrant cultural past and present with the local community. Since its establishment in 1990, the Institute has succeeded in presenting diverse, ongoing cultural programs and has become a thriving artistic center in the heart of Washington. Over the past two decades, the Institute has developed cultural programming in partnership with many institutions in the nation's capital including the Smithsonian Institution, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, among others.

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"Esperanza, las vendedoras del tren" tells de story of a small town in Puebla, Mexico that held all its hopes in the passing by train

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Memory is the star of this original story. Esperanza (Hope) the name of a town, is also the main sentiment for a group of women who sell food at a train station, for the passengers of a train that stopped traveling there three decades ago. The main storyline focuses on women striving to support themselves and honor the memory of their foremothers, also food vendors at the train station.Join us for a special screening of this beautiful documentary. Spanish with English subtitles

"Esperanza, las vendedoras del tren" | Documentary Screening

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