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- Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
- 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.
- By 1915, a contractor traveling to Posadas looking for new staff. Among the music and drinks in a bar and shipped to the mill. He is accompanied by a drunken doctor and his daughter. In the mill, injustices and cruelties are accentuated.
- The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Parana. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
- A film about real life musician Augustin Barrios Mangore, an influential and important composer and classical guitarist from Paraguay.
- Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.
- The young David divides his time between his home and his temporary job to fix and paint the house of someone who has gone abroad. After the arrival of a mysterious device for the homeowner, a restless and irrepressible curiosity takes possession of David. The myth awakens and David will get involved in a tale of greed, obsession, and death, ultimately threatening the most precious: the freedom.
- Set against spectacular landscapes, this film follows a man and his granddaughter as they travel from Paraguay to Buenos Aires to convince the girl's mother to give birth in Guarani land.
- In 1978, Paraguay lives a dictatorship and, clandestinely, two men bury corpses. But one day they find a man who is still breathing. They have to kill him, but they never killed anyone before.
- Benjamín is finding it hard to adapt to his job and starts behaving erratically-he anxiously awaits the return of the Mennonite leader, but the wait is long. When he finally appears, he says that they must stay on for longer to continue putting up the wire fencing, but Benjamín objects.
- This movie is about the life and love of a Chiperita. She makes and sells Chipa In the morning and tries to win the heart of the man she loves in the evenings.
- Sadistic nazis are keeping women prisoners for their bizarre experiments in a prison camp hidden in the jungle.
- 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.
- Jean was adopted in Paraguay in 1987 when he was a few months old. Thirty years after his arrival in France, Louise, his cousin, offers him to go together to his native country to search for his biological mother.
- Alfonso, a seeker of "plata yvyguy" (buried treasures of the War of the Triple Alliance), is struck by tragedy. Flee the field and its painful past to take refuge in the city of Coronel Oviedo, where it survives as recycling landfill.
- Fidel is a child who migrates from Paraguay to the bowels of the jungle of Misionera, Argentina. In the mountain is horse the workers call "El Che" for his noble spirit; just like the Revolutionary Che Guevara. The boy will ride his dream horse wearing Maradona's number 10 jersey as his amulet. His goal will be to earn money to help his mother living in poverty.
- The Guajajara people in the Brazilian rain forest are not going to stand by and watch their home be destroyed, thus opposition to illegal logging is growing there.
- In this docufiction about a unique guitar technique, it isn't always clear if myths are being investigated or created.
- The entire Itaguazu community of Paraguay works throughout the year, in preparation for the festivities of San Pedro and San Pablo. The rituals are inherited from the Guaraní Indians and some, like the Rúa, represent the abductions of their women by Guaikurú aborigines. The ancient rites, with fire and masks, were transformed with the Spanish colonization incorporating Catholic religious aspects, but still maintain the richness, vigor and peculiarity of the native culture.
- Juan de Dios (55) is a Guarani poet and craftsman. The harshness and deprivations of life in the countryside, endured throughout the years, have hardened his smile and stiffened the look in his eyes. Alongside the road, the symphony of nature vanishes and paradise seems to exist no more. However, within a few men, tenderness and desire do not vanish, wishes and dreams are well alive and keep beating in the depth of their souls. Novena lets us witness in a documentary, fiction and pictorial style how those few men, genuinely incarnated in Juan, push their dreams forward. Juans mother dies and this event offers him the last chance to travel to Buenos Aires and reunite with his sister, and perhaps, to start a smoothed, brand new life. Nine days of prayers and rosaries for the departed mother seem to catalyze years of waiting and disenchantment. There is only one thing to achieve before the Novena is ended: for once in his life to think of himself.
- Guarani Kokue shows the experience of Guaraní communities since the 80s, when the fences of the large estates were setting limits to the world they knew, being forced to have to fight, with the help of various organizations, to ensure territories where they could live according to your culture. Joining forces through long processes of organization between the different communities, the current struggle is to defend the territories won and to continue recovering, in the face of new antagonists that do not give truce, wooden dealers, soybeans, cattle ranchers, narcos.
- This documentary tells a part of the forgotten history of the Mbya Guaraní people who ancestrally inhabited the basin and islands of the southern Paraná in Paraguay and Argentina (Departments of Itapúa and Misiones). In the 80's, they were exiled from their lands without consultation or compensation, violating international treaties, for the construction of the Yacyreta (EBY) binational hydroelectric plant in Paraguay and Argentina. Similar situation lived other members of this town in nearby regions, affected by the colonization of the Paraná riverbank, ending all cornered in small communities. The displaced tell their story, and tour their ancient Tekoha, their sacred places, to which they do not have access today because they have become the property of EBY or private estates. Survivors originating from these lands are currently demanding compensation for the granting of the last Itapúa forests for native peoples, so that they can be protected, as a national park.
- This documentary covers in a representative way the indigenous populations that migrated, specifically in Asunción, Limpio, Luque and Mariano Roque Alonso. It tells about the ways of insertion of the indigenous people and the socioeconomic, political and cultural conditions of the different peoples that live in urban contexts. It also describes the particular characteristics and conditions in which indigenous people live in Asunción and Greater Asunción and details the causes of migration and the insertion of indigenous families in these areas. Urban Indigenous people are an integral part of the indigenous peoples, possessing the identity of their ancestral culture but which have allowed them to permeate urban characteristics, making a symbiosis between them. While all the cultural elements that define it and are transmitted from generation to generation are found living in areas of urban centers for different historical reasons, moving away from their traditional sites.