Paraguay, the Promised Land

"The Napkin Universe" tells the story of Felix and his friends, youths in search of answers to life's great mysteries, transcendence and love all the while facing the routine conflicts of existence in that stage of life where we go from adolescence to adulthood. The city of Asuncion becomes the urban backdrop onto which this story is...

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Luis Aguirre

Cast

Esteban Aguirre, María José Cacavelos, José Carvallo

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 a job as a store employee, and at the same time she finishes her high school. There are memories from the past that cause her to seek out and create her destiny. She is avoiding from her...

Runtime

1h 53m

Cast

Katherine Catolino, Luis Zorrilla, José Peréz Chaves

Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and...

Runtime

1h 25m

Cast

Anel Picanerai, Curia Chiquejno Etacoro, Ducubaide Chiquenoi

It tells the odyssey of Atilio and his granddaughter traveling to Buenos Aires, from Paraguay, his native country. The landscapes that run, the characters they encounter along the way, each with their own way of seeing the world.

Runtime

1h 25m

Cast

Emilio Barreto, Jazmín Bogarín, Hebe Duarte

Cast

Bruno Díaz Galeano, Montserrath Ramírez, Tainá Lipinski