Trains

Trains is a documentary made up entirely of archive footage that paints a portrait of twentieth-century Europe. By assembling images of passers-by in railway stations, it traces all the hopes, desires, dramas and tragedies of the last century. Like a repetitive refrain, the same scenes unfold all over the world: carriages full of men going off to war and coming back wounded or dead. This cycle is followed by an exodus of civilians, evacuees mingling with prisoners of war returning from the camps, soldiers from the victorious armies guiding the vanquished, until ordinary travellers reappear in the stations.

Special screening followed by a discussion on the challenges of editing archival footage with Orsola Valenti, editor and lecturer at ECAL.

This screening is organised  as part of Let’s Doc – documentary’s month – an initiative of Ciné-Doc.