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Documentary film by Ross McElwee about his family's process to adopt a Paraguayan infant girl named Mariah.
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 f
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. S
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 soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
Fide is a man who has stopped believing in Christmas after an incident in his childhood, but this year a magical and surprising event will come to his doorstep.
The first ever Paraguayan feature tells about the mass wave of European immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.
A rarely-screened trilogy of short films by the great Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina.
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 int
Documentary that explores the relationship between politics and drug trafficking in Paraguay
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 Franci
An approach to the land problem in Paraguay from the War of the Triple Alliance to the present day.
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
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 t
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
This documentary explores the people who supported, benefited from, were harmed by, and resisted the parliamentary coup that removed Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo from office on June 22, 2012.
Never before has the Camel Trophy visited so many of the world's empty quarters, crossed so many borders, or seen such a variety of landscapes as in 1994. By the time they had navigated their way across the vast barren w