A 26-minute masterclass from cinema rebels who filmed poverty like it owed them money.
Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Second episode, evoking the border between fiction and documentary. With his film Tire dié (1960), the Argentinian Fernando Birri proposed this manifesto: to create a realistic and critical national cinema, closer to society without falling into populism.
Direction
Lichy lets legends speak, then gets out of their way.
Production
Rare footage of Birri's Tire dié that film school forgot to show you.
Director
Atahualpa Lichy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tire dié (1960) invented a genre: poor children throwing sticks at trains for coins, filmed without exploitation. Birri called it 'committed cinema'—Hollywood called it unemployable.
Fernando Solanas made The Hour of the Furnaces (1968) after this, was exiled, shot three times, returned to direct Argentina's president. Life imitated manifesto.
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