Paraguay Movies

Alfredo Stroessner was the longest ruling dictator on the South American continent, controlling Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 with an iron fist....

Wishes, dreams, plans for the future: every day they are spoken aloud, like an incantation. A record of a future being constructed slowly, night by...

Deep in the jungle, a drifter attempts to inspire revolt against his cruel boss’s slave labor practices, made more difficult by the arrival of...

The revolution is over, but outlaws in the arid Chaco still harass the poor. An old woman reluctantly welcomes a lone gaucho.

Lucca, a young trans man from the outskirts of São Paulo, travels to Foz do Iguaçu — at the crossroads of Brazil, Paraguay, and...

The newlyweds have already left the party where the guests are still dancing. The bride has bled to death and the groom carries the body. He drags...

Liz Paola, a 50-year-old trans woman, is evicted and humiliated by her neighbors because of their prejudice. In her desperation, she calls for a...

Ten one-minute shots of the city of Capiatá.

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...

Betty Jara reassembles the Yaguareté Commandos to exchange an imprisoned criminal for one of her own agents. A risky operation becomes even...

Miriam is thirteen years of age. Today could be her last day at school. This film follows her day - with all its ups and downs - and describes her...

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...

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,...

In Paraguay, there is a unique refuge: Casa Diversa. This documentary immerses us in the daily life of this shelter, where transgender people find...

A family is forced into a dangerous citywide manhunt when the father is chosen in a list of the most vicious criminals and politicians.

The film mixes fiction and documentary in an unconventional cinematographic style, to narrate a poetic adventure that encounters the mythical...

During the Paraguayan Civil War of 1947, a girl from the red party establishes a friendship with a boy of the opposing party.