Osvaldo Bayer

El testigo (Conversaciones con Osvaldo Bayer) (2024)

4 lonkos (2020)

Documentary that tells the life, death and desecration of the mortal remains of three great chiefs of the pampas and Patagonia: Mariano Rosas, Cipriano Catriel and Juan Calfucurá, who after the bloody Desert Campaign, were desecrated in the name of scienc ...

Alsina's Trench (2017)

Documentary film about the "zanja de Alsina", a long trench dug in the Argentinian Pampa in 1876 as way to separate the "civilized" from the "barbarians" during the massacre of indigenous peoples known as "campaña del desierto". ...

Soy mestizo (2015)

The natural sciences museum of La Plata, Argentina, had indigenous people held captive as study objects in the past, and their skeletons were on exhibit for many decades. The story of Krygi, served as a trigger to look back at the ideologies that defined u ...

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 ...

Simón, el hijo del pueblo (2013)

The story of the mythical anarchist begins to weave on May 1, 1909, when the police repress a massive anarchist march in Buenos Aires, leaving dead and wounded. A few months later, the carriage of Ramón Falcón, the police chief who commanded the repressi ...

La palabra empeñada (2011)

Documentary about Argentine journalist Jorge Ricardo Masetti (1929-1964), founder of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina, and commander of Che Guevara's vanguard in Argentina. ...

Awka Liwen (2010)

This documentary exposes the untold story about the killing of native Southamerican people in Argentina in the late XIX century, with the aim of taking their lands for economical and political purposes. ...

Seré Memoria (2006)

The documentary rescues in its essence the experience of the first Clandestine Center in all of Latin America converted into a Museum ("Espacio Mansión Seré", inaugurated in March 2013) and manages to make visible a place where, years ago, death and horr ...

Mate Cosido, el bandolero fantasma (2003)

The life and mystery of the disappearance of the most famous rural bandit in Argentina between 1930 and 1940, Segundo David Peralta, alias Mate Cosido, is the object of the investigation that has been carried out for three years. ...

P4R+ Operación Walsh (2000)

Those who were closest to him give us a different Rodolfo Walsh: brave, womanizer, talented, whiskey-loving, obsessive, militant, full of doubts... but fundamentally human. ...

Ángel, la diva y yo (2000)

Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to film his last act. ...

Harto the Borges (2000)

A fragmented biography, inconclusive, partial, of the brilliant Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, based on different testimonies: his links with Leonor de Acedevo —his mother— and María Kodama —his second wife—; his vast culture and devout ded ...

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? ...

Soriano (1999)

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

Forbidden (1997)

Portrait of the persecution of various intellectuals in the period from the overthrow of María Estela Martínez de Perón to the Falklands War. ...

For Example, Argentina (1985)

Documentary on State terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, made in its aftermath. Invited by the Goethe-Institut to hold a workshop with young film students, Schroeter contrasts the official statements of the regime with the testimo ...

Cuarentena (Exil und Rückkehr) (1984)

The days between the end of the military dictatorship and the beginning of the constitutional period from 1983: political debates in the streets and the meetings of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who were waiting for the role that each political party would ...

Simón, el hijo del pueblo (2013)

The story of the mythical anarchist begins to weave on May 1, 1909, when the police repress a massive anarchist march in Buenos Aires, leaving dead and wounded. A few months later, the carriage of Ramón Falcón, the police chief who commanded the repressi ...

Jaime de Nevares: Último viaje (1995)

Documentary film about the life of Neuquén bishop Jaime de Nevares. ...

Fútbol argentino (1990)

A history of Argentine football, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the victory of the Argentine national team in the 1986 World Cup. The film uses valuable archival footage. ...

The Girlfriend (1989)

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentin ...

Juan: As If Nothing Ever Happened (1987)

Documentary about the detention-disappearance of Juan Marcos Herman in the city of Bariloche during the dictatorship in Argentina. ...

Todo es ausencia (1984)

Five Argentinian women, with missing relatives from the military dictatorship that ruled the country, explain their emotions and feelings about all that happened. ...

Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose ...

The Mafia (1972)

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of t ...