Cinema, República e Escola en Galiza. Cando os nenos observaban

The film La lengua de las mariposas [Butterfly?s Tongue], directed by José Luis
Cuerda from the script by Rafael Azcona, interweaves three of the stories in the book
Que me queres, amor? by Manolo Rivas by narrating, from the innocent look of the
child Moncho (Pardal), a journey through everyday life in rural Galicia at the time
of the Second Republic, which closes with the darkness of the Francoist dictatorship.
Through this text we aim to develop ?dialogues? between diverse sequences in the
film and the history of recent education in Galicia ‒ focusing particularly on schools
and on teachers ‒ attempting to contribute to raising awareness of cinematography as
a resource for reading, debate, and historical understanding.