Fernando Birri Movies

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...

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

Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

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...

“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...

Documentary that describes the awakening of the city and its daily movement.

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...

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

Film integrado por cinco cortos documentales sobre la ciudad de Buenos Aires realizados entre 1958 y 1964: Buenos días, Buenos Aires, Los...

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

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...

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

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