FILM REVIEW - THE POWER OF SPEECH

Description:
Hardy makes his living selling knickknacks on the buses of Santiago until the government - in order to make Chile a "World Class" country - announces a modernization plan banning this activity. Hardy together with 2000 of his colleagues bring their case before the country's congressmen and other authorities in a struggle to survive modernity. In 2007 the government's transportation plan Transantiago arrives. Chile doesn't shed its backward image, and Hardy learns, for better or for worse, that modernity is
JURY PRICE FIDOCS 2009