Paraguay Movies

It’s Friday night in Asunción and the temperature is 40ºC. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow-boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a cell phone in...

Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.

After her girlfriend is imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide...

Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in...

They live in the shadow of what is rigthfully theirs.

A man wakes up disoriented in his own apartment, and soon realizes that he is locked up and has no way out.

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 her...

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 th...

A woman with a paper bag over her head tries to seduce a gay Catholic School teacher.

"The Dead Girl's Feast" narrates the story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of...

A family has to survive a citywide manhunt after the father is chosen in a govenment killing list of the thirty worst criminals and politicians.

Victoria becomes an orphan because her father, Don Lucio, died. She does not have good communication with her mother, Raquel. She looks for, and finds...

The vast Gran Chaco natural region in Paraguay is under serious threat from large-scale deforestation and wildfires. Filmmaker Sebastian Peña Escobar...

A tale of the uprising of the Paraguayan rebellion against the Spanish crown 200 years ago.

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

A 1978 Paraguayan film set on the last days of the Paraguayan War.