NCLAFF Film: El Aula Vacia | The Empty Classroom

LOCATION: NELSON MANDELA AUDITORIUM, FEDEX Global Center, UNC-CH >>> Spanish w/ English subtitles. Gael García Bernal, et all. (Mexico), 2015. 111min. >>> Eleven directors portray the impact of school dropout in Latin America through a wonderfully diverse and complex feature film. He travels to seven countries and explores the reasons why almost half of high school students never graduate. The empty classroom is a kaleidoscope of stories, an compilation film that shows us different points of view in several Latin American countries. The compilation functions also as a genre based film exercise based on real stories on the situation of the conditions of youth in the region. >>> Shown with "The Cost of Opportunity (O custo da oportunidade), Dudu de Morro & Stephanie Reist (Brazil), 2017. 30min.