Fernando Birri

Mario Verdone: Il critico viaggiatore (2024)

Tie Your Plow to a Star (2017)

In 1997 the Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri returned to his home country to film a documentary on the 30th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara and the relevance of utopias at that time. Carmen Guarini decided to record those moments. A rough edit of ...

BirriLata, Around by Train (2015)

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 committed cinema that tears itself apart in its solidarity with its own surroundings. This ode to the tireless Birr ...

Osvaldo Bayer “La livertá” (2014)

Throughout his 87 years, the anarchist historian, journalist and writer Osvaldo Bayer was one of the greatest exponents of a sustained commitment to his liberation struggles, illuminating the past so that the present and future are increasingly emancipator ...

Vanishing Landscapes (2013)

A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hospital. In their visits to the mental hospital, the three students will forge a very special relationship wi ...

Fernando Birri, el utópico andante (2012)

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

El Fausto Criollo (2011)

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 faithful version and integral. ...

Carpani, vida y obra (2009)

A journey through the life and work of artist Ricardo Carpani, his artistic and ideological formation, and the importance of his pictorial output, considered a symbol of the political struggle of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Once the rise of state terroris ...

Amizade (2009)

Vlado: Thirty Years Later (2005)

The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of Brazilian military dictatorship. ...

Donde comienza el camino (2005)

The journey of Fernando Birri, the great father of New Latin American Cinema, has left a mark that begins at the legendary Santa Fe Documentary School and continues to this day. His methods, influences, his founding role, his poetic-political commitment, a ...

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth (2003)

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues. ...

Rocha Que Voa (2002)

Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba. ...

Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa (2002)

This documentary deconstructs the life of my father, Carlos Ragone, based on his work as a photographer and photojournalist: father and daughter, photographs and audiovisuals, memory and imagination intertwine. ...

Jorge Giannoni: NN, ese soy yo (2000)

Jorge Giannoni isn't a hero; he's a witness to the darkest part of the history of independent cinema in our country, and of an entire generation; a story that saw him present alongside Raymundo Gleyzer and Glauber Rocha in the turbulent Brazil of the 1960s ...

Soriano (1999)

Testimonies about the life and work of writer and journalist Osvaldo Soriano. ...

Historias Breves 2 (1997)

Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos (1996)

What goes through someone's mind 13 seconds before they die? A town lost in the year 40. Different characters in their common actions. Two men lying in the street, one dead, the other playing dead. Between reality and the delusions of his mind we travel th ...

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1988)

An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor family gives him shelter in a chicken coop. Father Gonzaga is the skeptical priest who rushes to damn the ...

Claves, 2: We will return younger (1984)

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Second episode, evoking the border between fiction and documentary. With his film Tire dié (1960), the Argentinian Fernando Birri proposed this manifesto: to create a realistic and critical national cine ...

The Compass Rose (1983)

Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present. For some viewers, the film will be superficial ...

Compañero Fernando (1981)

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

Sierra Maestra (1969)

An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. The journalist, interviewed by the press, says he has no connection with the guerrilla organizations and is thrown into jail and subjected to psychological an ...

Dar la cara (1962)

Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina. ...

Abandoned (1955)

A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl ...

Attila (1954)

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself. ...

Ho ritrovato mio figlio (1954)

A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema where his brother works and it is clear that he is involved in the theft of the projector. Determined to ri ...

The Cheerful Squadron (1954)

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges ...

Atenas (2019)

Persephone is released from prison after three years. Returning to the neighborhood will present him with a new hell. Without a job, she gets the help of Juana who shelters her in her house and with whom she looks for some changa to survive. ...

El Fausto Criollo (2011)

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 faithful version and integral. ...

Che: muerte de la utopia? (1999)

What does Che Guevara"s mythic presence represent to people at the turn of the century, and how do people define their concept of utopia? ...

Century of the Wind (1999)

Narrated [not only] with puppets, a dramatic vision of Latin America throughout the 20th century with its constant ferment of dictatorships, hunger, corruption, civil wars, heroic episodes and spilled blood. ...

Entangling Shadows (1998)

Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inici ...

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1988)

An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor family gives him shelter in a chicken coop. Father Gonzaga is the skeptical priest who rushes to damn the ...

Mi hijo el Che (1985)

A portrait of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's family. ...

Rafael Alberti: A Portrait of the Poet (1984)

Rte.: Nicaragua (Carta al mundo) (1984)

Compañero Fernando (1981)

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

ORG (1979)

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend ...

Sierra Maestra (1969)

An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. The journalist, interviewed by the press, says he has no connection with the guerrilla organizations and is thrown into jail and subjected to psychological an ...

Castagnino Diario Romano (1967)

Equal parts philosophical treatise and artist's portrait, this short follows the thoughts and methods of Argentine artist Juan Carlos Castagnino, whose commitment to utopian thinking and radicalism mirror Birri's own. "Living up to date is living one day i ...

Buenos días, Buenos Aires (1966)

Documentary that registers the awakening of the city and its daily early movement. ...

Che, Buenos Aires (1966)

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 First Foundation of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires in a T-shirt. ...

La Pampa Gringa (1963)

"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 throughout LA PAMPA GRINGA, which endeavors to relate the sense of community built by the European settlers who in 1865 ...

Flooded Out (1962)

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 recede Salado river wagon. ...

The First Foundation of Buenos Aires (1959)

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, using the original text of the German explorer Ulrich Schmidel. This film, which disappeared in the years ...

Toss Me a Dime (1958)

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 dié!" (toss me a dime!) to the passengers. Considered the first survey-on-film in Latin America. ...

Immagini Popolari Siciliane Sacri (1954)

Short documentary drawing parallels between the Sicilian people and their history of sacred visual representation. ...

Immagini Popolari Siciliane Profane (1954)

Short documentary drawing parallels between the Sicilian people and their history of profane visual representation. ...

One Is One (1951)

"Carlo and Rafaella are going to Rome for the first time. They have specially planned a journey they must make so that they can have a whole day together alone".. . so starts this film following the (mis)fortunes of these two young lovers. ...

Selinunte, i templi addormentati (1951)

SELINUNTE marks Birri's first cinematic effort, made during his years studying at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma. ...