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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

“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...

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

"Carlo and Rafaella are going to Rome for the first time. They have specially planned a journey they must make so that they can have a whole day...

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...

Tells the story of a poor family, inhabitants of the southern province of Santa Fe, who is forced to move into an abandoned railroad until waters...

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

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

In 1956, the humorous designer Oski made a work about the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires. Fernando Birri made a film from this work in 1959,...