Paraguay Movies

Lucas, a young shoeshine boy surviving in the train station of Villa Encarnación, silently carries the absence of his late mother. In his loneliness, one night he sends a wish to the sky, longing to see her again. But the innocent plea does not reach a shootin...

An investigation is started after the brutal murder of the daughter of a high class family.

A few weeks before the presidential elections of 2008, the Paraguayan people's faith in a better future is reborn thanks to the candidacy of Fernando Lugo, the "priest of the poor." Facing the giant Colorado Party, which has been in power for more than 60 year...

For more than 20 years, skaters from Asunción have been demanding from the authorities, without being heard, a public space where they can practice the sport. “Honorable Skate” is a cry of struggle. A request that became a demand. It is our way of saying that...

Chamorro is a mechanic and owner of a family workshop who is mired in debt. Desperate to settle them, he looks for solutions that he can't quite find. Years later, Chamorro has completely changed, he is known as a successful entrepreneur and everything seems t...

A story about not measuring the scope and effects of the garbage made in the name of “love”.

Rubén González appears one day on a farm looking for work, the owner of the farm, a German named Hans, gives him the opportunity to stay, what he doesn't know is that Rubén comes with intentions to steal, since he has information that the "German" has many hid...

Rosa, a lonely and independent woman, after losing her job and her father, finds herself forced to care for her mother, Vicenta, who has Alzheimer’s disease and with whom she has had a difficult relationship since childhood. With the support of her best friend...

An investigative journey of more than 120 years of cinema in Paraguay, from the first screening with the Lumière Brothers cinematograph to the present day.

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, se...

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...

After mysterious disappearances of women recent months, Sara a young woman from the town decides to meet a man but the date doesn't end as expected due to the dark secrets that unite them...

Young Benjamin is having trouble adjusting to barbed wirework. Waiting for days to the Mennonite chief but the wait is very long. The other workers, César and Genaro, begin to feel that the Paraguayan Chaco is getting strange and tiring.

Observational documentary about the Paraguay Psychiatric Hospital.

Two grandmothers hide the death of their friend’s parrot, but the “crime” turns into an unexpected miracle. Believers, an opportunistic pastor, and a politician take advantage of the phenomenon. While the Church grows suspicious, the desperate grandmothers do...

The evening of the day dedicated to Saint Blas, patron saint of Paraguay, Thursday, February 2, 1989, seemed peaceful. However, the night brought an event that took almost everyone by surprise. A coup d'état deposed General Alfredo Stroessner, dictator for 35...

Alfredo Stroessner was the longest ruling dictator on the South American continent, controlling Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 with an iron fist. Opponents were imprisoned, tortured or killed. In Guapo’y, Celsa, now in her 60s, looks back on that horrific period....

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...