Fernando Solanas

Solanas is the kind of artist I keep coming back to because he refused to stay in one lane. A Cannes-winning director who also picked up a camera, wrote the scores, and then went into politics is not a resume, it is a worldview. What I admire most is that he used his prestige as a weapon rather than a cushion, pointing his lens at Argentina's dictatorships and corruption when it would have been safer to coast. Pino mattered because he treated cinema as civic duty, and he carried that conviction from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all the way to the end.

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Name (English)

Fernando Solanas

Name (Japanese)

フェルナンド・E・ソラナス

Reading

ふぇるなんど・E・そらなす

Born

February 16, 1936 – November 6, 2020

Origin

Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Occupation

theatre director / politician / film director / screenwriter / cinematographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Awards & achievements

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1972 Sutherland Trophy
• 1988 Cannes Best Director Award

• Official sitehttps://www.pinosolanas.com
• Xhttps://x.com/fernandosolanas
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20Solanas
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BBE%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508497

Tags

• Buenos Aires Province
• theatre director
• politician
• film director

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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