Fernando Birri Movies

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...

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...

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most...

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

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

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...

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...

The Transfiguration of Light is a documentary that intertwines memory, poetry, and visual experimentation to reconstruct the legacy of the Santa Fe...

Narrated [not only] with puppets, a dramatic vision of Latin America throughout the 20th century with its constant ferment of dictatorships, hunger,...

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

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

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...

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

Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of...

A documentary on the professional and personal affordances of the influential sound engineer Antoine Bonfanti.

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?

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,...

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

Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its...