Spanish Documentary Filmmaking

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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.

Canciones para después de una guerra [Songs for after a War] (1971), Basilio Martín Patino.

Ama lur [Mother Earth] (1968), Néstor Basterretxea and Fernando Larruquert.

Innisfree (1990), directed by José Luis Guerín.

La doble vida del faquir (2005), Elisabet Cabeza and Esteve...


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