Spanish Documentary Filmmaking
By: Brian Davisson
This is a list of some Spanish documentaries (either made on Spanish topics or by Spanish directors filming elsewhere) that are visually or thematically interesting. This is as much about me increasing what I’ve seen as anything, so suggestions are welcome.
A shot from Luis Buñuel’s Las Hurdes: tierra sin pan, from 1932.
Innisfree (1990), directed by José Luis Guerín.
Mark Peranson with Albert Serra; see Peranson’s documentary Waiting for Sancho
Not in the database:
La ruta de Don Quijote [The Path of Don Quixote] (1934), Ramón Biadiú.
Día de muertos [Day of the Dead] (1960), Joaquím Jordá and Julián Marcos.
Ama lur [Mother Earth] (1968), Néstor Basterretxea and Fernando Larruquert.
Canciones para después de una guerra [Songs for after a War] (1971), Basilio Martín Patino.
Navarra, las cuatro estaciones [Navarra, the Four Seasons] (1972), Pío Caro Baroja (nephew of the great Spanish novelist Pío Baroja).
El campo para el hombre [Land for the People] (1975), Helena Lumbreras and Lisa Mariano.
Gipuzcoa (1979), Pío Caro Baroja.
Casas viejas: el grito del sur [Old Houses, the Cry of the South] (1996), Basilio Martín Patino.
La espalda del mundo [The Back of the World] (2000), Javier Corcuera.
La guerrilla de la memoria [The Guerrilla of Memory] (2002), Javier Corcuera.
La doble vida del faquir (2005), Elisabet Cabeza and Esteve Riambau.
Aguaviva (2005), Ariadna Pujol.
El somni [The Dream] (2008), Christophe Farnarier.
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01Mercedes Álvarez
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02Luis Buñuel
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03Jaime Chávarri
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04Víctor Erice
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05Jacinto Esteva Grewe
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06José Luis Guerín
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07José Luis Guerín
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08Gonzalo Herralde
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09Robert Hessens
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10Joris Ivens
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11Joaquín Jordá
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12Julio Medem
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13Mark Peranson
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14Pere Portabella
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15Pere Portabella
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16Pere Portabella
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17Carlos Saura
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18Fernando Trueba
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19José Val del Omar
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20José Val del Omar
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21José Val del Omar
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22José Val del Omar
