Daytime Cinema | The Teacher Who Promised the Sea (2023)
Hosted by Amsterdam Film Group
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Films with Subs
Weekend edition of the Daytime Cinema event series for language learners
Watch movies and learn some new words at the same time! This meetup is for anyone who sees cinema not only as ART and ENTERTAINMENT, but also as a source for learning and community.
As a beginner in Dutch (A1/A2) or an individual learner (B1/B2/C1) going to the cinema often supports your language journey enormously. Passive knowledge grows out of small steps you would not even think of at first. Feel free to come along if you feel like a language shock would help to grow your motivation, but also if you just wanna hang out before or after the film.
Don’t be like Ross or Rachel in Friends. Language learning starts with topics you love!
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Directed by: Patricia Font (1978, Spain)
Starring: Enric Auquer, Laia Costa, Luisa Gavasa
Runtime: 1 hour and 45 minutes
In 1935, young Antoni Benaiges is appointed as the new teacher at a small school in a remote village in Burgos, Spain. Education was traditionally strict and traditional, but the idealistic Benaiges takes a very different approach: he lets his pupils think, fantasise and dream for themselves. He also promises to take them to the sea one day. 75 years later, Ariadna, great-granddaughter of one of Benaiges' pupils, discovers the forgotten story behind that promise. Searching for the grave of her great-grandfather, one of the many victims of the Spanish Civil War, she also manages to find out what happened to Benaiges.
In 2013, the novel Desenterrando el silencio. Antoni Benaiges, el maestro que prometió el mar by Catalan writer Francesc Escribano was published, in which he tells the true story of an innovative teacher and the fate that awaited him under Franco's fascists. Patricia Font filmed it, Escribano co-produced the film.
The film is in Spanish, with Dutch subtitles
Info & Trailer: https://rialtofilm.nl/en/films/2275/the-teacher-who-promised-the-sea
When: Saturday 21/06/25 at 13:45. Film starts: 14:15.
Theater: Zaal 9 - RVU
Meet me in the NUVU building at Bar Boele!
Where: Rialto VU
De Boelelaan 1111
1081 HV Amsterdam
I hope to see you there!