Fernando Birri
Fernando Birri was an Argentinian filmmaker, poet, painter, teacher and film school founder, and has been a key figure in Latin American cinema.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1098 |
| Birthday | 1925-03-13 |
| Place of Birth | Santa Fe, Argentina |
| Also Known As |
1981
Compañero Fernando
7/1
This documentary is a portrait made in Mexico by a group of Argentine exiles, directed by the painter Nicolás Amoroso.
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Compañero Fernando
2015
BirriLata, Around by Train
0/0
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 committed...
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BirriLata, Around by Train
1954
Attila
5.435/23
Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies...
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Attila
1954
Ho ritrovato mio figlio
8/2
A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema w...
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Ho ritrovato mio figlio
1955
Abandoned
7/20
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 them...
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Abandoned
2002
Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa
9/1
This documentary deconstructs the life of my father, Carlos Ragone, based on his work as a photographer and photojournalist: father and daughter, phot...
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Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa
2009
Amizade
0/0
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Amizade
1996
Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos
5.5/2
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 i...
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Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos
2000
Jorge Giannoni: NN, ese soy yo
9/1
Jorge Giannoni isn't a hero; he's a witness to the darkest part of the history of independent cinema in our country, and of an entire generation; a st...
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Jorge Giannoni: NN, ese soy yo
2002
Rocha Que Voa
6.5/4
Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.
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Rocha Que Voa
1997
Historias Breves 2
6/1
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Historias Breves 2
1962
Dar la cara
6.667/9
Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.
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Dar la cara
2011
El Fausto Criollo
4/1
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 fa...
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El Fausto Criollo
1988
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
5.333/9
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 poor...
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
2017
Tie Your Plow to a Star
5.5/2
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...
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Tie Your Plow to a Star
2013
Vanishing Landscapes
7/2
A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hosp...
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Vanishing Landscapes
2012
Fernando Birri, el utópico andante
0/0
Documentary film about Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri. An interview: a journey through documentary filmmaking, his childhood, the dawning of New...
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Fernando Birri, el utópico andante
2009
Carpani, vida y obra
0/0
A journey through the life and work of artist Ricardo Carpani, his artistic and ideological formation, and the importance of his pictorial output, con...
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Carpani, vida y obra
1983
The Compass Rose
4.625/8
Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin A...
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The Compass Rose
1999
Soriano
7/1
Testimonies about the life and work of writer and journalist Osvaldo Soriano.
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Soriano
1954
The Cheerful Squadron
6.143/7
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Al...
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The Cheerful Squadron
2024
Mario Verdone: Il critico viaggiatore
0/0
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Mario Verdone: Il critico viaggiatore
untitled (Document No. 1)(Helmut Waldemar / Winchester Banz)
0/0
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, as a lo...
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untitled (Document No. 1)(Helmut Waldemar / Winchester Banz)
2003
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
6.278/9
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and...
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
1969
Sierra Maestra
0/0
An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. The journalist, interviewed by the press, says he ha...
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Sierra Maestra
2005
Donde comienza el camino
9/1
The journey of Fernando Birri, the great father of New Latin American Cinema, has left a mark that begins at the legendary Santa Fe Documentary School...
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Donde comienza el camino
2002
Antoine Bonfanti, sonic traces of an engaged listening
0/0
A documentary on the professional and personal affordances of the influential sound engineer Antoine Bonfanti.
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Antoine Bonfanti, sonic traces of an engaged listening
2005
Vlado: Thirty Years Later
6.5/3
The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of Braz...
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Vlado: Thirty Years Later
2014
Osvaldo Bayer “La livertá”
0/0
Throughout his 87 years, the anarchist historian, journalist and writer Osvaldo Bayer was one of the greatest exponents of a sustained commitment to h...
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Osvaldo Bayer “La livertá”
1984
Claves, 2: We will return younger
0/0
Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Second episode, evoking the border between fiction and documentary. With his film Tire dié (1960),...
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