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On a bustling footbridge separating Argentina and Paraguay, where people traffic all kinds of things in a mix of Guarani and Spanish, we meet Angel. Over the course of the next ten years, Angel will have to make decisive choices for his future.
The movie unfolds after Sam Archibald is taken to the Demon Realm. His brother, Wyatt Archibald, is released from a psychiatric facility by Father Augusto with a singular mission: to rescue Sam. To succeed, Wyatt must rely on the support of his trusted allies, but the journey ahead is fraught with peril and challenges.
The official documentary of the Copa Libertadores Feminina 2021
The year is 2005, Juan Carlos works in the COBUP (committee to search for persons disappeared during the dictatorship), his main objective is to find his grandfather who disappeared in the 80s. In the middle of his search, his partner Karen tells him about a abandoned house where torture was possibly carried out and there could be buried bodies. Meanwhile Sub-Officer Alvarenga and Sub-Officer Martinez begin their shift without much emotion, having no idea of what awaits them. Juan Carlos, defeated by his anxieties, goes to investigate the house to find that a piece of the dictatorship is still in force.
Basilio has become accustomed to the lack of water, to the abuse of authority, to the suffering and loneliness that corruption generates. He is trapped, like many others to the system that reigns where he lives.
A man and a teenager live in a house in the middle of the woods. The idea of an impossible closeness.
Wyatt and Sam Archibald are two brothers spending a few days at their aunt's house. However, Wyatt and Sam don’t get along very well—Sam is adopted. Upon arriving at their aunt's house, they find that the aunts are absent, but they assume they’ll return in a few days. As time passes, they begin to realize that something is seriously wrong.
In the name of the struggle against terrorism, a special operation - code named CONDOR - was conducted in the 1970s and '80s in South America. Its target were left-wing political dissidents, the organized labor and intellectuals. Condor soon became a network of military dictatorships supported by the U.S. State Department, the CIA, and Interpol.
The story of the Paraguayan rock group Revolber and the concert they gave in the La Chacarita neighborhood of the city of Asunción on a spring day in 2011.
An homage to master Eduardo Coutinho, a Brazilian documentary filmmaker who recorded several interviews in the famous Master Building 20 years ago. Paz Encina searches for traces of Coutinho's still strong presence in the setting/object of his feature film, sewing an affectionate letter from the encounter with this space — and its current residents — and dialoguing with the voids, ghosts and memories of a film and a place.
The legend of the life of Antonio 'Gauchito' Gil and the construction of the myth are axes of this story. 40 years after his death, an old man goes through the towns telling the legend of the pagan saint. He tells the story of his miracles and the exploits of the Gaucho, who knew how to do justice in times of war.
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 brave country girl's colorful rise to fame as a cumbia singer in Paraguay.
Compilation of 18 animated short films made by Spanish-speaking artists from around the world for the Filmoteca Maldita Short Film Festival. This collection contains very diverse works, both in technical and thematic aspects, although they all share a genuine spirit of dedication and creativity.
The supernatural story of Fluminense's unprecedented CONMEBOL Libertadores title. An emotional account in special interviews with top scorer Germán Cano, star Marcelo, hero John Kennedy, key players Nino, Felipe Melo, André, John Arias, and coach Fernando Diniz. Watch exclusive footage and experience all the emotions of the fans who lost in 2008 and reached the skies against Boca Juniors at Maracanã on November 4, 2023. A record for eternity in the heart of the Tricolor fan!
Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Totobiegosode Natural and Cultural Heritage". Before this, they had to live through the traumatic situation of leaving the territory behind and surviving a war. It is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the point of view of Asoja, a bird-god with the ability to bring an omniscient- temporal gaze, who becomes the narrator of this story developed in a crossing between documentary and fiction.
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.
A social and cultural testimony of Paraguayan peasant life (in the indigenous language of Paraguay: the Guarani), its subsistence problems, the emigration of family members, their struggles for the recognition of their rights, their relationship with nature and their hopes. This testimony corresponds to the shared experience with the Ramos Gómez family, resident of Cordillerita Costa, Ybycuí, Department of Paraguarí, 120 kms. of the capital Asunción, on April 20, 2008, national election day.
This is about the myth of the Jasy Jatere, part of the Guarani culture in Paraguay.
Alejandro Duarte, a renowned prosecutor seeking justice and investigating a political mafia boss Eligio Peralta, gets into a series of conflicts with his family.
The story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a “miracle” upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of those who are involved in this sect and of the infinite human capacity of “fabricating” faith and seeking some sense in the horrifying experience of death.
In Paraguay, there is a unique refuge: Casa Diversa. This documentary immerses us in the daily life of this shelter, where transgender people find refuge, support and community in a safe environment.
Three parallel stories with a common theme: to become an adult in a cruel and competitive world; the wild jungle of everyday life. Alejandro turns thirty looking very far from his dreams, so he takes action: he decides to storm a gasoline to get the money needed for his jam manufacturing company. He is helped by Juanse, his best friend, whose wife fights for a well-deserved promotion in a supermarket, but his boss tries to change the job promotion for sex. Coco, Alejandro's cousin, is attacked and confronts the barrabravas of the neighborhood to recover their belongings, among which is his cell phone with intimate images of his girlfriend. Jubentú: one day in our fucking life.
On April 20th, 2008, carried by a tremendous popular support worthy of the greatest South American revolutions, Fernando Lugo, the "suspended" bishop, is elected president of the Republic of Paraguay. After sixty years of absolute power, the Colorado party is compelled to accept the changeover of political power. This documentary will enable us to discover the scarcely known country nestled deep into the heart of the South American continent, its unique social structure, its painful past and its surprising identity. By listening to the newly elected president, to his deposed Colorado opponents, to the specialists of the history of the country and to the people itself, they will help us understand why the Paraguayans, after so many years of dictatorship and unopposed governing, have entrusted their destiny to a free man: a religious figure who threw himself into the political arena to try and rescue his country of crime, injustice and poverty and to restore democracy.
Nina is a young woman of 20 years old who lives in Asunción in 1947 in the middle of the Paraguayan Civil War. She longs to be a singer, but is forced to work as a maid in a conservative environment after her family escapes. Although, she puts herself at the service of the revolution and frees various political prisoners, including Raúl with whom she will have an affair. However, she must flee the country after becoming pregnant and her lover having abandoned her.
Two Paraguayans wander the city collecting testimonies and stories about the meaning of sunsets. Between emotion and routine, their journey becomes a quiet tribute to everyday beauty.
The vast Gran Chaco natural region in Paraguay is under serious threat from large-scale deforestation and wildfires. Filmmaker Sebastian Peña Escobar travels with the German entomologist Ulf Drechsel and the Paraguayan ornithologist Jota Escobar to this vulnerable, flammable area, which looks like an apocalyptic landscape with red dirt roads and dry thorny trees.
Of all my uncles, Rodolfo was the only one who didn't want to be a blacksmith like my grandfather: He wanted to be a dancer. The search for the traces of his life leads to the discovery that in the eighties in Paraguay, under Stroessner's dictatorship, Rodolfo was included in one of the "108 lists of homosexuals", arrested and tortured. Rodolfo's story reveals a part of the hidden and silenced history of my country. In "Cuchillo de palo" two generations come face to face in a confrontation that ultimately allows each of us to understand our place in the world.
The eighties romance of a couple through a ballad that go along with them while they watch movies, discover vinyl records and go out dancing.
A drag queen singer’s boyfriend tells him that he is HIV positive. Between ballads and performances, he will experience intense and sensitive hours, as his convictions are shaken. Ángel Molina, a Paraguayan filmmaker and drag performer himself, exposes a heartfelt story of disarming sincerity, of (in)comprehension and love that never fades.
In a record of images and sounds, a HIV-positive man recounts his sexual experience on the border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
Arturo travels through the depths of his subconscious, where his mind will guide him towards a decision he must make.
Stemming from the triple border territory between Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, Fran Rebelatto’s first feature film follows the women known as Pasajeras (Passengers) and their daily passages across these frontiers. Grounded on equally borderline procedures between documentary, the domain of fiction, and indigenous mythologies, the film records the everyday fluctuations of these lives traversed by a landscape constantly in motion, building female narratives of sacrifice and resistance.
A vision from Limbo, where the canoeist of the eternal lake floats in his boat, between sleep and wakefulness. When he sleeps, he dreams of the everyday of a parallel time. when he wakes up, the same song haunts him again and again. his boat, “ara” (time, in guarani) travels through time like a shooting star.
Six friends gather to celebrate a birthday in a cabin far from the city. What begins as a night of laughter, alcohol, and substances slowly spirals into something darker, as the boundaries of reality start to collapse. When events take an unexpected turn, the group is forced to question whether what they are experiencing is real… or only in their minds.
A team born to make history. Corinthians, champions of the CONMEBOL Women's Libertadores for the sixth time in 2025, qualified for the 2026 FIFA Women's Champions Cup. The beginning of a path for South American football to showcase its talent to the world. A CONMEBOL and Corinthians co-production.
A tale of the uprising of the Paraguayan rebellion against the Spanish crown 200 years ago.
Arami Ullón must return to Paraguay to make an important decision: what will happen to her sick mother, Mirna? The heartfelt gaze of the camera reveals a relationship filled with love, but also unspoken and unresolved issues. A sensitive film which examines the inner turmoil of the daughter during the final stages of her mother’s degenerative illness.
After several years of silence of the LGBTIQ+ community because of a national decree, a group of friends organized a big attack to be free and have the right to speak in public again.
Paraguay, 1999. The country is experiencing a period of political and social turmoil. One morning, Ramón, an impoverished farmer, receives an unexpected request from his wife: to sacrifice their last chicken and loyal pet so they can have dinner that night.
Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the seventies. In an attempt to preserve fragments of a disappearing culture, Mateo walks across communities in the arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco region, and registers on cassettes the experiences of other Ayoreo who, like him, were born in the vast forest, free and nomadic, without any contact with white civilization, until religious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory, their means of subsistence, their beliefs and their home.
This is the Hospital for the Poor, the most discriminated institution in the public health system, this is the place where the young resident Dr. Lucas Stanley starts his career as a physician. Soon he finds out that strange and illegal affairs take place at the hospital, so he gets in an overlapping research, acting as an amateur investigator. But with every step he takes towards the resolution of the mystery, he feels more pressure and siege of those behind a dark conspiracy, and soon he finds himself lost in an alley of intrigue and danger which could not find the way back.
A voyeuristic and unsettling look at seven intimate stories. To love, to hate, or simply to navigate both extremes are the daily reality of this week in the capital. Seven seemingly unconnected moments of people who, behind closed doors, reveal their vices, disorders, and vulnerabilities, and who, upon leaving, don the everyday masks they wear in public.
This Super 8 short film was discovered on May 22, 2024, at the Paraguayan-German Cultural Institute in Asunción. The film is the result of a workshop produced by the ICPA's film department in 1987, led by filmmaker Marie Louise Alemann, a pioneer of experimental cinema in Argentina.
The film mixes fiction and documentary in an unconventional cinematographic style, to narrate a poetic adventure that encounters the mythical universe of the writer and the Paraguay of yesterday and today. Augusto Roa Bastos, the greatest Paraguayan writer and 1989 Cervantes Prize winner, author of "The Thunder Between the Leaves", "Son of Man", "Yo el Supremo" and "El Fiscal" among others, returns from exile and undertakes a geographical journey and at the same time dreamlike to Iturbe, his childhood town, searching for the land and the characters of his literary fictions to write his novel titled "Contravida." The writer thus participates in a dual condition: as an interpreter of Paraguayan reality and as a protagonist of his own imaginary universe.
Many Paraguayan women migrate from their villages to the city to earn money to support their families. As domestic workers, they become part of a system of exploitation accepted by society and legitimized by Paraguayan law. This is the story of one of them and everything she leaves behind when she goes.
Poha Jagua explores the lives of more than 100 dogs who, after suffering abuse and abandonment, find healing in a herd called Jaguarenda. At the same time, we hear from Vero, who used to fear them, but now lives with them, leading the community. The documentary is a testament to the fact that love can always conquer everything.
Victoria, a trans woman with suicidal thoughts, wanders the streets one morning and has a strange encounter with a girl.
The research project "Voices and Perceptions of Indigenous Women on Gender-Based Violence" allows us to approach a reality that transcends borders and socio-cultural differences: violence against women. Indigenous women, from their own worldviews, conceptualize violence, their experiences, and their needs in the pursuit of a good life. This documentary aims to give visibility to this problem and to value the role of Indigenous women within their communities, organizations, and villages as actors in building a life free from violence.
There is a distance, emotionally not only physically, between Jimena and her grandmother, Miri. This is a way to try and get closer, to understand, to accept, mixing past and present she tries to find her grandmother, in an attempt to reconnect with something that once existed, but that it no longer does.
A family photo, the sound of the oncoming storm, the cat wandering the kitchen, a man alone in this space. Paz Encina’s early melancholic short is a conversation not shown on screen. Has it already occured or does it take place after this brief moment in time? Using only subtitles and visual language, SUPE QUE ESTABAS TRISTE creates an array if emotions without ever having to “show” anything.
Fernando Lugo, the bishop of the poor, won the 2008 presidential elections in Paraguay. After 61 years of hegemony by the Colorado Party and by the dictator Stroessner, this unexpected victory came as a political miracle. But politics is not for saints and the dream turns into a nightmare. Power and Impotence tells the utopia of political change: the adventure of common men accessing power to try and challenge the system from within. In a political thriller settled in stranger-than-fiction Paraguay, we follow their hopes and disappointments from a unique behind-the-scene point of view, until the tragic ending. An uncommon film, an authentic modern Shakespearean drama about power.
In the solitude of the teachers' cafeteria, Justino repeats his nightly ritual: eating until he's full, until he can't eat anymore. But that night, amidst the remains of the stew and the echo of silence, something breaks. Repressed memories of his childhood return along with his mother's voice, driving him to devour not only the food, but his own guilt.