Tire dié

In 2022, it was selected as the 24th greatest film of Argentine cinema in a poll organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

[1] Fernando Birri, born in Santa Fe in 1925, left at the age of 25 for Rome to study film-making at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from 1950 to 1953.

The short film, with a documentary-like approach, is a genuine look into impoverished realities of Argentina in the 1950s.

Not definitive in nature, but provides something more valuable – a physical cinematic look into the perspective of a man living what the film portrays.

Every day, the children would run along the sides of the moving trains shouting "Tire dié".