Fernando E. Solanas

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. (imdb)

A sprawling, convulsive film, The Hour of the Furnaces is a call for violent revolution designed to be used as a tool for education, information, and debate (complete with titles signaling intervals for discussion). (cinema-scope.com)

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 fighting multi national banks that are shamelessly appropriating their farmlands. (imdb)

In the sorrow of exile, a group of Argentinians in Paris seek solace and connection to their culture by staging a set of tangos. The film alternates between their vibrant rehearsals and their circumscribed lives in low-rent apartments, underemployed, fitfully communicating with families back home, trying to make do with what they hope are only temporary arrangements in a foreign land. (imdb)

Only three years after the chaos, Fernando 'Pino' Solanas presents a colorful documentary detailing the causes for the 2001 Argentinian economic crisis, going all the way back from the 1976 military coup and succeeding dictatorship, through Menem's neo-liberalism and treason to his people, to the shocking events themselves of December, 2001.

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. (imdb)

Documentary about how argentina cannot use its own resources

Solanas continues the film-essay model where genres are merged by alternating chronicles with reflections. Black Gold is the sixth film in a series devoted to the crisis in Argentina. Taking us on a discovery journey to the major oil wells in the furthest regions of the country the film documents the epic popular resistance against the sale of Argentinean oil resources to private companies and its tragic consequences: impoverishment, loss of jobs, environmental pollution. (IKSV)

Impure Gold is the first instalment of the environmental project by the ever-activist Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas tackling the plundering of underground resources and the ensuing contamination ending with Black Gold. Portraying stark reality full of scams, miseries, and corruption, Solanas targets the mining industry and open-air cyanide or explosives extraction of minerals and metals at the northeast of Argentina, and observes the reaction of the local public. (IKSV)

Interview with Juan Domingo Peron by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino held in Madrid between June and October 1971. (filmoteca-canal7.blogspot.co.uk)

An eclectic group of actors struggles to save their theater from being demolished and replaced with a shopping mall. Max, the leader of the troupe, is a workaholic director who abandoned his family to build his career and is forced to confront the daughter he deserted. Then there is Enrique, the playwright-poet who is reduced to pawning his belongings to sustain his livelihood when his state pension is severed. (L.H. Wong)