Francisco Cisco Pancho (2011)

Love – Presence – Death

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: The personal history of Francisco Varela as told by him on his veranda in Monte Grande, Chile, on February 17, 2001 when he was already greatly weakened by chemotherapy but still extremely present and awake, three months before he died on May 28, 2001. As very few before him have done, Francisco Varela attained levels of accomplishment in Western science as well as in Buddhist philosophy and meditation. ORAL ANTHOLOGY: Individual interviews with Francisco Varela, Amy Cohen Varela, Bruno Latour, H.H. Dalai Lama, Tsoknyi Rinpoche; and poems by Francisco Varela, read by his father, Raúl Varela Rodríguez.

Cast (5)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

F

Francisco Varela

Self

A

Amy Cohen Varela

Self

Bruno Latour

Self

T

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Self

Tenzin Gyatso

Self

If you liked Francisco Cisco Pancho, you might also like…

92% match

I Am Heath Ledger

2017

90% match

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

85% match

The Curse of the Dragon

1993

81% match

Come See Me in the Good Light

2025

74% match

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me

2023

72% match

Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life

2017

73% match

My Mom Jayne

2025

68% match

Hawking

2013

63% match

Pamela, A Love Story

2023

60% match

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

2019

60% match

Maria by Callas

2017

60% match

S4: The Bob Lazar Story

2026

60% match

To Kill a Tiger

2023

60% match

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

2017

60% match

Bruce Lee, the Legend

1984

60% match

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

2008

60% match

I Am Ali

2014

60% match

The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

2009

60% match

In the Realms of the Unreal

2004

60% match

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

2003