Watch the short film Leagues / Leguas by acclaimed director Lucrecia Martel (Zama), which was part of the 2015 omnibus film The Empty Classroom / El aula vacía. Produced by Gael García Bernal and the Inter-American Development Bank, The Empty Classroom is an anthology of narrative and documentary short films by eleven directors that tell the story of the high school dropout crisis in Latin America.
As beautifully diverse and complex as the region, the shorts are shot in seven different countries and explore the underlying reasons why nearly one out of every two students never makes it to graduation day. In addition to Martel, other filmmakers in the omnibus film are Tatiana Huezo and Nicolás Pereda from Mexico, Pablo Stoll from Uruguay, and Diego and Daniel Vega from Peru.
Martel’s Leagues explores the subject of academic exclusion in the native communities in northern Argentina despite the promise of equal opportunities for all by the system of education.
LEAGUES / LEGUAS
A film by Lucrecia Martel
(Argentina, 2015, 12 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
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