Fernando Birri
Birthday: 1925-03-13
Place of Birth: Santa Fe, Argentina
Biography: Fernando Birri was an Argentinian filmmaker, poet, painter, teacher and film school founder, and has been a key figure in Latin American cinema.
Movies
Compañero Fernando
This documentary is a portrait made in Mexico by a group of Argentine exiles, directed by the painte...
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BirriLata, Around by Train
Few people in Argentine and Latin American cinema have been as close as Fernando Birri to stand as a...
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Attila
Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto ...
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Ho ritrovato mio figlio
A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his consc...
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Abandoned
A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when ...
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Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa
This documentary deconstructs the life of my father, Carlos Ragone, based on his work as a photograp...
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Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos
What goes through someone's mind 13 seconds before they die? A town lost in the year 40. Different c...
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Jorge Giannoni: NN, ese soy yo
Jorge Giannoni isn't a hero; he's a witness to the darkest part of the history of independent cinema...
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Rocha Que Voa
Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba....
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Dar la cara
Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face t...
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El Fausto Criollo
A version of El Estatola del Campo's poetic Faust of the Poet (1886) integrates the major trilogy of...
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The ...
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Tie Your Plow to a Star
In 1997 the Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri returned to his home country to film a documentary on...
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Vanishing Landscapes
A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film direc...
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Fernando Birri, el utópico andante
Documentary film about Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri. An interview: a journey through documen...
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Carpani, vida y obra
A journey through the life and work of artist Ricardo Carpani, his artistic and ideological formatio...
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The Compass Rose
Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial...
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The Cheerful Squadron
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by m...
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untitled (Document No. 1)(Helmut Waldemar / Winchester Banz)
A tribute to German film critic and cinema activist Helmut W. Banz made with outtakes from two featu...
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema N...
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Sierra Maestra
An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. Th...
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Donde comienza el camino
The journey of Fernando Birri, the great father of New Latin American Cinema, has left a mark that b...
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Antoine Bonfanti, sonic traces of an engaged listening
A documentary on the professional and personal affordances of the influential sound engineer Antoine...
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Vlado: Thirty Years Later
The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been torture...
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Osvaldo Bayer “La livertá”
Throughout his 87 years, the anarchist historian, journalist and writer Osvaldo Bayer was one of the...
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