Movies: Fernando E. Solanas

The epic of popular resistance to the privatization of oil in Argentina and its tragic consequences: thousands of layoffs, poverty and environmental pollution. It was one of the biggest scams and failures of national history: the country was self-suf...

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

Lengthy interviews, exclusive to this movie, with Juan Peron, describing his military career and the reforms he instituted as leader of the Argentine government....

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...

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...

Last homage to the great director Fernando Solanas, dear to our hearts, who came multiple times in Competition to the Festival and two times to Cannes Classics. Through this documentary rich in sensibility and visual flair aided by stunning graphics,...

Through a trip to the site Vaca Muerta, in Neuquen, the specialist Felix Herrero and research Maristella Svampa, revealing testimonies of villagers and technicians on the effects and results of the new process oil and unconventional gas are collected...

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...

Félix Monti is synonymous with cinematography in Argentina. From his early steps in the legendary San Miguel studios to his recent work in large-scale Argentine film productions, Chango has never stopped working. Directors Alejandra Martín and Paola ...

Twenty-four people confide in the camera. What they all have in common is that they have been struck down by a disability, either through an accident or a disabling illness. Now integrated into society, they speak in turn about their lives. Through i...

After Memoria del saqueo, La dignidad de los nadies, Argentina latente and La próxima estación, Solanas begins with Oro puro a diptych on the plundering of mineral resources (metals and hydrocarbons). This remarkable and powerful documentary denounce...

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Fifty intense minutes for the viewer to review the history of the company and the political, social and economic consequences that the bankruptcy and the various scams carried out by Vicentin have had and still have in the lives of thousands of Argen...

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Peronist view of its history between the fall in 1955 and the electoral triumph of 1973 using a metaphor of the poem Martin Fierro....

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...

A journey through the life and work of artist Ricardo Carpani, his artistic and ideological formation, and the importance of his pictorial output, considered a symbol of the political struggle of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Once the rise of state te...