Movies: Fernando E. Solanas

A black cloud brings 1600 days of rain to Buenos Aires, while traffic and pedestrians move backwards. Aging actor Max (Eduardo Pavlovsky) runs the Mirror Theater in a former fish market, but lack of funding means a possible demolition. Max is attract...

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and ...

An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographi...

A collection of shorts, some documentary and some fictional, showing the political climate in Argentina during the military regime of the late 1960s....

Director Octavio Getino is exiled in Lima. Through letters, archive footage and the protagonist’s voice, the feel tells of the director’s vast life experience in an in-depth study where the biographical outline is offered as a footnote to recent Arge...

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The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers...

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Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America....

A series of interviews with Juan Domingo Perón in Madrid, where he was exiled. Filmed between June and October 1971, Perón talks about the current situation of the Justicialist movement and the steps to be taken to win the presidential elections agai...

A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence....

Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to film his last act....

An extensive interview with Fernando Solanas and an important amount of unpublished material, the documentary describes the process of making the most influential film of Latin American cinema. It was done exclusively to accompany its home release....

Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservative forces and popular movements....

Documentary with staged events about a poor rural family in Argentina....

After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have...

Debtocracy seeks the causes of the Greek debt crisis and proposes solutions sidelined by the government and the dominant media. It follows countries like Ecuador that created debt Audit Commissions and tracks this process in Greece....

In 1971, during the Spain of the last Franco, Solanas and Getino frequented Juan Perón's residence in Puerta de Hierro to film - secretly - two long documentaries with the former president. They were six months of travel between Madrid and Rome, wher...

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