Fernando Birri Movies

An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. The journalist, interviewed by the press, says he...

A version of El Estatola del Campo's poetic Faust of the Poet (1886) integrates the major trilogy of Argentine gaucho poetry, is proposed here in a...

“My life was the same as that of thousands of gringos: I plowed and sowed the land, and went to the bar on Sunday.” Such is the refrain...

Everyday the children of the neighborhood known as "Tire Dié", in the city of Santa Fe, wait for the train to ask for money, shouting "Tire...

Tells the story of a poor family, inhabitants of the southern province of Santa Fe, who is forced to move into an abandoned railroad until waters...

Film made up of five short documentaries about the city of Buenos Aires made between 1958 and 1964: Good morning, Buenos Aires, The Anonymous, The...

A tribute to German film critic and cinema activist Helmut W. Banz made with outtakes from two features by Jürgen Heiter. Banz as an explorer,...

Documentary film about Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri. An interview: a journey through documentary filmmaking, his childhood, the dawning of...

This documentary is a portrait made in Mexico by a group of Argentine exiles, directed by the painter Nicolás Amoroso.

Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

Equal parts philosophical treatise and artist’s portrait, this short follows the thoughts and methods of Argentine artist Juan Carlos...

A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental...

Few people in Argentine and Latin American cinema have been as close as Fernando Birri to stand as a patriarch, pioneer, and spokesman for a...

A journey through the life and work of artist Ricardo Carpani, his artistic and ideological formation, and the importance of his pictorial output,...

In 1956, the humorous designer Oski made a work about the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires. Fernando Birri made a film from this work in 1959,...