Fernando Birri

Fernando Birri

Born: March 13, 1925
Died: December 27, 2017
in Santa Fe, Argentina
Fernando Birri was an Argentinian filmmaker, poet, painter, teacher and film school founder, and has been a key figure in Latin American cinema.

Movies for Fernando Birri...

Tie Your Plow to a Star
Title: Tie Your Plow to a Star
Released: November 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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 and the relevance of utopias at that time. Carmen Guarini decided to record those moments. A rough edit of this film was hidden away on a fragile VHS tape for twenty years. Today, these images come to life and shed some light on the life of this Latin American poet and master filmmaker, who, at the age of 92, still refused to give up on his own utopias.
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BirriLata, Around by Train
Title: BirriLata, Around by Train
Released: November 5, 2015
Type: Movie
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 cinema that tears itself apart in its solidarity with its own surroundings. This ode to the tireless Birri presents him to us in full: teaching, establishing standards, and creating with the tools of his time, turning culture into a form of political affirmation as he grows more and more vital and rooted.
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Vanishing landscapes
Title: Vanishing landscapes
Released: May 2, 2013
Type: Movie
A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hospital. In their visits to the mental hospital, the three students will forge a very special relationship with the self-styled former film director as they follow different clues and strategies to discover his 'true' identity.
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Fernando Birri, el utópico andante
Title: Fernando Birri, el utópico andante
Character: himself
Released: October 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Documentary film about Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri. An interview: a journey through documentary filmmaking, his childhood, the dawning of New Latin American cinema...
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Carpani, vida y obra
Title: Carpani, vida y obra
Released: November 8, 2009
Type: Movie
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Amizade
Title: Amizade
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Rocha Que Voa
Title: Rocha Que Voa
Released: August 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.
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Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa
Title: Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Jorge Giannoni: NN, ese soy yo
Title: Jorge Giannoni: NN, ese soy yo
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Soriano
Title: Soriano
Released: April 22, 1999
Type: Movie
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Historias Breves 2
Title: Historias Breves 2
Character: (Segmento: Trece segundos)
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos
Title: Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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 in the street, one dead, the other playing dead. Between reality and the delusions of his mind we travel through his last thirteen seconds of life.
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Title: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Character: Old Angel
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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 family gives him shelter in a chicken coop. Father Gonzaga is the skeptical priest who rushes to damn the creature. Soon the Old Man is the subject of curiosity seekers as Elisinda and Pelayo start charging admission. A traveling carnival of human oddities camps near the Old Man as people flock to see the show. The Old Man is reduced to being an unwanted pet, and after six years, he mends his wings and flies away. Nudity, simulated sex with a spider woman, and the ugliness of human exploitation definitely put this fantasy in a category not for children.
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The Compass Rose
Title: The Compass Rose
Character: Mateo
Released: March 19, 1983
Type: Movie
Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present. For some viewers, the film will be superficially symbolic and rhetorical, for others, it will be a strong and personal vision of several centuries of history.
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Compañero Fernando
Title: Compañero Fernando
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
This documentary is a portrait made in Mexico by a group of Argentine exiles, directed by the painter Nicolás Amoroso.
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Character: Scattered Soldiers' Lieutenant
Released: September 7, 1955
Type: Movie
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 for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.
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Attila
Title: Attila
Released: December 27, 1954
Type: Movie
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 of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.
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Ho ritrovato mio figlio
Title: Ho ritrovato mio figlio
Released: December 19, 1954
Type: Movie
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 where his brother works and it is clear that he is involved in the theft of the projector. Determined to right the wrong done by his sibling, he attempts to make amends.
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The Cheerful Squadron
Title: The Cheerful Squadron
Released: December 5, 1954
Type: Movie
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, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.