Ignacio Agüero

Ignacio Agüero (Chile, 1952) studied architecture and film. He made his first shorts during the Pinochet dictatorship, culminating in One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (1988). His line of work as an artist has mainly been as a documentary filmmaker, though he also appeared as an actor in numerous films, including several by Raúl Ruiz.

One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Ignacio Agüero, 1988)

One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train

Ignacio Agüero, Chile, United Kingdom, 1988, 57’

Each Saturday, historian and activist Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a screening room for about a hundred children. They have never seen an actual movie, and in her workshop, they learn more about cinema. Through watching films, the children discover a larger reality and a different world.

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“Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025

02.02.2026

As a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image, yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, together with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, critics, and scholars worldwide to participate in a first-ever poll of its kind. Invitees were asked to nominate ten audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. Through this non-academic approach to canon-building, this has led to an inspiring list of 105 titles.