Cines del Sur has undertaken extensive publishing work, releasing a dozen essential monographs for Spanish-language film bibliography, many of which remain key reference texts.
2007 (1st EDITION)
'Youssef Chahine: The Fire and the Word'
∙ Coordinator/Editor: Alberto Elena. ∙ Description: A monograph on the Egyptian master, honored in the first edition.
'21st Century China: Challenges and Dilemmas of a New Independent Cinema (1992-2007)'
· Description: An exhaustive study on the generation of Chinese filmmakers who broke away from state studios.
2008 (2nd Edition)
'Mohsen Makhmalbaf: From Discourse to Dialogue'
Description: A book dedicated to analyzing the work of the Iranian filmmaker who visited the festival that year.
'The European Dream: Cinema and Migrations from the South'
Description: A collective work analyzing the representation of migratory flows and borders in contemporary cinema.
2009 (3rd Edition)
'Souleymane Cissé: With the Eyes of Eternity'
Description: A monograph on the great Malian director, one of the fathers of African cinema.
'Intruders in Paradise: Foreign Filmmakers in 1960s Cuban Cinema'
Description: An intriguing investigation into how directors from outside the island (such as Varda or Ivens) portrayed the early years of the Revolution.
2010 (4th Edition)
'Cinema Philippines: History, Theory, and Film Criticism (1899-2009)'
Reference title for the retrospective Forty Years of Filipino Cinema) Description: A historical overview of Filipino cinematography, from Lino Brocka to Brillante Mendoza.
2011 (5th Edition)
'Inventory of Returns: The Documentary Cinema of Andrés Di Tella'
Editor: Casimiro Torreiro. Description: The first book published in Spain about the work of this Argentine documentary filmmaker, including an extensive interview and texts by the director himself.
