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A rarely-screened trilogy of short films by the great Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina.

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In 1939, the sculptor Josef Thorak made a bronze horse sculpture, which was set up in front of the Reich Chancellery. The film visits the different stations and traces of the sculpture after 1945, which has not managed to take root as a monument. What commemorative function do such objects serve?

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The first ever Paraguayan feature tells about the mass wave of European immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.

August 1, 2004, Asunción, Paraguay. Sunday, noon, a fire in a supermarket that presumably breaks out in the food court, leaves a balance of 400 dead and 500 injured. Survivors and witnesses affirm that the doors were intentionally closed so that customers would not leave without paying. The film follows the trials of the main defendants. The testimonies of victims and of the main actors in the trial are intertwined with the testimonies of the accused, little by little the social drama that Paraguay is experiencing is becoming evident.

A series of talks with leading figures in the country's cultural life, where the Jesuit priest, writer, researcher and linguist Bartomeu Meliá recounts his arrival in Paraguay in 1954 and his long history of life, exile and intellectual production always linked to his adopted homeland, Paraguay.

Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.

Veteran French doc director Dominique Dubosc revisits the South American country where he taught ethnology, made his first films and got a taste of life under a military dictatorship.

A father and a mother await the arrival of a son on a rainy day.

This film, recovered in 2022, captures the first visit of Paraguayan schoolchildren from the Artigas School in Asunción to Uruguay in December 1930.

The path of Paraguayan immigrants who drive to Asuncion and then arrive in São Paulo. They are rural workers, musicians, vendors and underemployed people. Two parallel worlds: the Guarani culture and the Brazilian adventure in São Paulo juxtaposed with Paraguayan songs and the Guarani language, spoken by the main characters.

A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.

Ryuzo, Japanese young man who has committed a crime of passion in Tokyo, is sent by his father to Paraguaipoa to escape justice. In this place, inhabited by the Wayuu ethnic group, meets Princess Campanula. Among them was a love affair, not welcomed by the smuggler Challenger occurs.

In the mid-60s, musicians emerged in Paraguay who made their way in a country under dictatorship. These demonstrations laid the foundations for the following generations, in a search for identity, to forge what we know today as Paraguayan rock.

When Brazil won the war against Paraguay in 1870, they spared the life, but not the reputation of the woman they claimed was the chief villain in the bloodshed. Irish-born Eliza Lynch, lifetime partner of dictator Francisco Solano López, was painted by Brazil as a puppet master, thief and whore, and in 1991 included alongside Lucretia Borgia and Catherine the Great in a book entitled The World’s Wickedest Women. In Paraguay, the country where she lived as a beloved uncrowned queen, she is a national heroine. Fascinated by the contradiction, Irish academics Michael Lillis and Ronan Fanning embarked on 18 years of research to write a biography which forms the basis of Alan Gilsenan’s unique and compassionate documentary. Blending interviews with re-enactments of Eliza’s life – wonderfully performed by actress Maria Doyle – Gilsenan thoughtfully breathes humanity into a portrait of a much maligned woman.

The Paraguayan railroad, created in 1861, fell in the late twentieth century in decline. Operated for decades by foreign companies and later by the Paraguayan State has been in a growing abandonment since the late 90s. Since then there have been projects of recovery, but the stations are empty and the main terminal was demolished late last year.

Documentary that explores the relationship between politics and drug trafficking in Paraguay

In the 19th century, a little-known event occurred, given its importance: the largest war in South America, in which four countries were involved. Was it a war between countries? Did Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay join forces against Paraguay? Why is it called by so many different names?

A recently arrived Paraguayan illegal immigrant in Buenos Aires turns to a cousin who supports her alcoholic and abusive boyfriend.

Reveals an alternate history of the post-war world. This is a version of history where, in contrast to what we are all told, fascist ideology prevailed. The story of Klaus Barbie, Nazi torturer, American spy, tool of repressive right-wing regimes, is symbolic of the real relationship that the "Western" governments had with fascism and makes us see the world as it is today - and the politicians that inhabit it - in a different way.

A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.

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Rubens, a powerful gangster, decides to take his last big blow with the help of his adopted daughter Leônia. But not everything goes as planned during the robbery of a bank's private coffers on Avenida Paulista, in the heart of São Paulo. Rubens and Leônia will only find their true destinations, by spawning the stolen objects in Paraguay, where both characters enter into crisis with their own existential values.

Three friends decide to find one of the worlds most powerful drugs. And ingest it. A gonzo documentary that takes you to and beyond the edge of the world.

Betty Jara reassembles the Yaguareté Commandos to exchange an imprisoned criminal for one of her own agents. A risky operation becomes even more so when she realizes they are not just fighting a drug ring but the highest spheres of power.

Rafael is the oldest brother of a close family belonging to generation of Olimpia Soccer club fans, he is in charge of managing the family's mini market. Due to his brothers mistake, he receives an eviction notice from the bank, and decides to pose as a lawyer to solve the case.

In July 2015, after 27 years, Paraguay will receive the Pope. Ru Ore is a documentary about the waiting for this important event through four life stories: Gaby, 13, who lives in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Asuncion; Mafe, 16, who is fighting against cancer; the story of Margarita, 53, Indigenous "Aché" fighting for the survival of her traditions and culture; and the history of Tati, 18, a survivor of the Ycuá Bolaños tragedy.

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A 1978 Paraguayan film set on the last days of the Paraguayan War.

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The life and times of famed Paraguayan musician Agustín Pío Barrios, from the years of his youth to his international success.

The Legend of the Paraguay War Legend tells that during the Paraguay War (1864-1870), families that lived near the border and soldiers who were leaving for battle used to hide their valuable belongings by burying them in secret spots, in order to safely recover them after the war. In several cases, though, the only people who knew about the secret spots of those personal treasures died before they could go back to recover them. According to inhabitants of that region, the spirits of those tormented men would reveal the location of those "buried and hidden" treasures to chosen people in their dreams, visions or by haunting them. "The Legend of the Paraguay War" approaches local legends in a historic and literary way. Those legends were born from within the biggest conflict in South America, and were developed and influenced by the local imaginary view of the world and which can be considered a relevant part of those people's identity up to this day

In Paraguay, during the regime of dictator Alfredo Stroessner, almost 400 people disappeared without a trace, and several hundred thousand were sent to prisons where they were tortured. One of these people was Emilio Barreto, an aspiring actor who spent a total of thirteen years in prison despite never being tried for any crime.

Two young women have their new video camera stolen by a petty thief, but the brother of one of the women will seek revenge.

The documentary deals with the experiences around orgasm of Paraguayan women of different ages and provides the vision of a sexologist who comments on these experiences. In the conversation that is generated from this social dynamic, taboos, myths and common situations in relationships are discussed.

A young woman experiences paranormal events in the early morning; Her father, a renowned businessman in the region, convinced that his daughter is the victim of a "PAYE" spell, searches in a very remote place for a man who could put an end to this evil once and for all, but this man hides macabre plans. .

Nanduti, which means cobwebs, is a unique Paraguayan folk art, which may have derived from Spanish crafts. All images are from nature but are interpreted with wonderful imagination and skill. Ñandutí, Lace of Paraguay, by Annick Sanjurjo and Albert J. Casciero, documents the history, evolution and making of this beautiful and delicate lace and it complements the book and e-book of the same title.

Helena, a criminal's daughter, was raised in a boarding school. When the priest who was her teacher is killed by a group of outlaws, Helena and her female friends assemble in a strange gang of female bandits, wandering Northeast Brazil and forcing the men they capture to have sex with them.

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Jorge is coming back to his regular life in the peaceful town of Olho d'Água das Flores, going to meet his parents. However, he is surprised by a drastic change in the region where he was born, known as the Trash Zone, a place that became the scene of a plague that has the power to resurrect the dead. Now Jorge will have to ally himself with the few survivors, like Dido, a countryman who may be Jorge's last hope to escape the terrors of the Zone.

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