Humberto Ríos

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... ...

Jorge Prelorán, el cine de un humanista (2007)

Jorge Prelorán was one of the most prolific documentary filmmakers from Argentina. This documentary presents an interview which focuses on his creative work, and on how his ideas about documentaries are key in the uniqueness of his topics and characters. ...

Rerum Novarum (2001)

Near Luján, the Rerum Novarum music band, composer of former workers of the Flandria cotton plant, continues playing nowadays, in spite of the shutdown of the factory. The old musicians struggle with passion in the need to maintain an identity, in a prese ...

Historia, leyenda y mito de una utopía agrarista: Testimonios zapatistas (1987)

This film integrates a series of testimonies based on the memory and myth of the last surviving Zapatistas, those peasants who, led by Emiliano Zapata, during the decade from 1910 to 1920, in central Mexico, radicalized the Mexican Revolution by becoming w ...

Del Viento y del Fuego (1983)

This Voice Among Many (1979)

The testimonies of three Argentines: Laura Bonaparte, Carlos González Gartland and Raúl Fonseca, on repression and torture in Argentina between 1973 and 1979. ...

Mexico: The Frozen Revolution (1973)

A thorough analysis of the socio-politics of Mexico, within the historical context of the Mexican Revolution reality. Includes footage from the 1910s, interviews with farmers, politicians, intellectuals, middle class, union, etc, as well as scenes from the ...

Al grito de este pueblo (1972)

Directed by Bolivian-born filmmaker Humberto Ríos (working from Argentina, where he was based), this 65-minute color documentary chronicles the struggle of Bolivian miners and peasants in the period leading up to the de facto government of dictator Hugo B ...

Eloy (1969)

The film is about Eloy, a Chilean bandit and companion of Joaquín Murieta, who is wanted by the justice system on the border with Argentina. Although an escape seems impossible, in desperation he flees without a fixed destination. ...

Argentina, mayo de 1969. Los caminos de la liberación (1969)

A collection of shorts, some documentary and some fictional, showing the political climate in Argentina during the military regime of the late 1960s. ...

The Pottery Makers (1965)

Raymundo Gleyzer's documentary on o community of Pottery Makers in the west of Cordoba province in Argentina who create pieces to sell to the tourists. ...

Faena (1961)

The images connect the workings of a slaughterhouse with a city that is also divided between executioners and dead people. ...

Ríos de la patria grande (2016)