List of Paraguayan films
A list of films produced in Paraguay. Paraguay produced more than a hundred feature films, including fiction and documentaries, including several important co-productions.
1950s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1955 | ||||||
| Codicia[1] | Catrano Catrani | Sara Antúnez, Ernesto Baez, Guillermo Battaglia | Drama | A western in co-production with Argentina, filmed in the city of San Antonio (Paraguay) | ||
| 1956 | ||||||
| El trueno entre las hojas[2] | Armando Bo | Armando Bo, Isabel Sarli | Drama | Based on the novel of the same name by Augusto Roa Bastos | ||
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| 1959 | ||||||
| La sangre y la semilla[3] | Alberto Dubois | César Alvarez Blanco, Ernesto Baez, Raul Valentino Benítez | Drama | Co-production with Argentina, about Paraguayan War | ||
| En la vía[4] | Alberto Dubois | Olga Zubarry, Ernesto Báez, Carlos Gómez | Drama | Production with Argentina, never released | ||
1960s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| La Burrerita de Ypacaraí | Armando Bo | Isabel Sarli, Luis Alberto del Paraná, Ernesto Baez | Crime, Drama, Musical | Co-production with Argentina. Contains music and an appearance from Paraguayan singer Luis Alberto del Paraná. | ||
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1970s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| Cerro Cora | Guillermo Vera | Roberto De Felice, Rosa Ros, Pedro Ignacio Aceval | War | The first fully Paraguayan production feature film. Funded by the government of Alfredo Stroessner. | ||
| O Amante de Minha Mulher | Alberto Pieralisi | David Cardoso, Ira von Fürstenberg, Milton Moraes | Comedy | Co-procution with Brasil | ||
| 1979 | ||||||
| O Último Cão de Guerra | Tony Vieira | Hitagibe Carneiro, Renée Casemart, Heitor Gaiotti | Crime | Co-procution with Brasil | ||
1980s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1981 | ||||||
| A Cafetina de Meninas Virgens | Agenor Alves, Guillermo Vera | Juan Ramon Benitez, Cinira Camargo, Renée Casemart | Crime | Co-production with Brasil | ||
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| 1989 | ||||||
| El Secreto de la Señora | Hugo Gamarra | Blás Alcaraz, Edda de los Rios, Techi Pereira | Drama | Adapted as the first telefilm | ||
1990s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1994 | ||||||
| Miss Ameriguá | Luis R. Vera | Raquel Baeza, Jesús Pérez, Ayesa Frutos | Comedy | Screened at the Gramado Film Festival | ||
| 1995 | ||||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| De paso por la vida | Carlos Benegas | Drama | ||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| El portón de los sueños | Hugo Gamarra | Justina Aguero, Rosa Elena Blanco, Juanita Espinola | Documentary | About the life and work of the writer Augusto Roa Bastos | ||
| O Toque do Oboé | Cláudio MacDowell | Paulo Betti, Mario Lozano, Arturo Fleitas | Drama, Fantasy | Co-production with Brasil | ||
| 1999 | ||||||
2000s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 2002 | ||||||
| María Escobar | Galia Giménez | Ruth Ferreira, José Carlos Aguayo, Miguel Maria Aguayo | Comedy | |||
| Réquiem Por Un Soldado | Galia Giménez | Manuel Cuenca, Manuel Rodríguez, Clara Benítez | Drama, War | |||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Miramenometokei | Enrique Collar | Claudia Bogarín, Katherine Catolino, Ramon Del Rio | Drama | |||
| 2004 | ||||||
| Rechts-Links (Derecha-Izquierda) | Augusto Netto y Rafael Kohan | Documentary | About the survivors of the Holocaust, who migrated to Paraguay | |||
| Estudio para una siesta paraguaya | Eugenia Blanc, Lía Dansker, Alejandro Nakano | Drama | Co-production with Argentina | |||
| 2005 | ||||||
| Acople | Augusto Netto, Rafael Kohan | Drama | ||||
| O Amigo Dunor | José Eduardo Alcázar | Almudena Alcazar, Lyonel Combeçau, Dilma Lóes | Drama | |||
| Cándido López - Los campos de batalla | José Luis García | Odina Leguizamón | Documentary | |||
| Cenizas | Virginia Ferreira, Eduardo Mora | Documentary | ||||
| La Tierra Ardía | Manuel Cuenca | Silvino Alegre, Manuel Cuenca, Manuel Rodríguez | History, War | |||
| 2006 | ||||||
| Hamaca Paraguaya | Paz Encina | Ramon Del Rio, Georgina Genes, Jorge López | Drama | Screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Carimea | Ray Armele | Drama | ||||
| Tierra roja | Ramiro Gómez | Documentary | Portrait of the life of peasant families | |||
| 2007 | ||||||
| El Invierno de Gunter | Galia Giménez | Emilio Barreto, Victor Bohbout Chávez, Manuel Cuenca | Drama | |||
| Profesión cinero | Hugo Gamarra | Documentary | History about the golden age of mobile cinema and neighborhood cinemas | |||
| Casos de Misterio | Ramón Ramoa Salcedo | Mystery | Filmed in the city of Pilar | |||
| 2008 | ||||||
| El reflejo | Gustavo Delgado | Drama | Set in the successive financial crises since 1996 | |||
| Acosta Ñu | Ramón Ramoa Salcedo | Drama | About the battle of the War of Paraguay, in which 3,500 child soldiers died | |||
| El regalo de Sofía | Leticia Coronel y Hugo Cataldo Barudi | Drama | ||||
| Error de imprenta | Nilfe Vera y Aragón | Horror | ||||
| Detrás del sol: Más cielo | Gastón Gularte | Drama | Co-production with Argentina | |||
| Frankfurt | Ramiro Gómez | Documentary | Presents a group of soccer players of the rural league. | |||
| Paraguay fue noticia | Ricardo Álvarez | Documentary | About the fire at the Ycuá Bolaños supermarket, where almost 400 people died in 2004 | |||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Circo pe | Miguel Agüero | Documentary | Portrait of one of the last itinerant circuses in the country | |||
| Relatos de Curupayty | Ramón Ramoa Salcedo | Mystery | Filmed in the city of Pilar | |||
2010s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 2010 | ||||||
| Felipe Canasto | Dario Cardona Herreros | Beto Ayala, Ramon Del Rio, Liber Fernandez | Drama | |||
| Universo Servilleta | Luis Aguirre | Esteban Aguirre, María José Cacavelos, José Carvallo | Drama | |||
| Semana Capital | Hugo Cataldo | Luis Aguirre, Natalia Alvarenga, Paola Amaini | Comedy, Drama | |||
| Cuchillo de palo | Renate Costa | Miguel Auad Petunia, Nancy Baruja, Renate Costa | Documentary | |||
| Novena | Enrique Collar | Juan de Dios Collar, Teodora Gonzalez, Bernardino Ojeda | Drama | Screened at the Mar del Plata Film Festival | ||
| 18 cigarrillos y medio | Marcelo Tolces | Drama | Co-production with España and México | |||
| La tierra sin mal | Anna Recalde Miranda | Documentary | Coproduction with Francia and Italia | |||
| 2011 | ||||||
| Che pykasumi | Ermes Medina Valiente | José Fleitas, Alicia Arce | History, Drama, Romance | History about the poet Cecilio Valiente and the inspiration of his most famous poem | ||
| 1811, Jirones de Gloria | Ramón Ramoa Salcedo | History | Filmed in the city of Pilar | |||
| Tren Paraguay | Mauricio Rial Banti | Documentary | ||||
| Santo de la Guitarra: La historia fantástica de Agustín Barrios Mangoré | Carlos Salcedo Centurión | Documentary | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| 7 Boxes | Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori | Celso Franco, Víctor Sosa, Lali Gonzalez | Thriller | Nominated at the 27th Goya Awards for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. Screened at many film festivals, including San Sebastián, Mar del Plata, Toronto, Guadalajara, India, Miami and Palm Springs. | ||
| Libertad | Gustavo Delgado | Rafael Alfaro, Fiorella Migliore, Jorge Ramos | History | |||
| Vínculos | José María Dávalos | Romance | ||||
| Migraña/La enamorada | Martín Crespo | Drama | Based on texts by the Spanish writer Rafael Barret | |||
| Un Revolber en la Chaca | Luis A. Aguirre | Revolber | Documentary, Music | |||
| 2013 | ||||||
| Costa Dulce | Enrique Collar | Juan de Dios Collar, Christian Riveros, Eladia Velazquez | Drama, Mystery | Screened at the Mar del Plata Film Festival | ||
| Fin de la línea | Gustavo Delgado | Lucía Valdez, Sergio González | Action | |||
| Lectura Según Justino | Arnaldo André | Julieta Cardinali, Mike Amigorena, Diego Gonzalez | Drama | |||
| El azúcar del naranjo | Galia Giménez | Drama | ||||
| Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay | Alan Gilsenan | History, Documentary | Production of Ireland on the lover of Marshal Francisco Solano López | |||
| Esperanza | Enrique Carballido, Sylvie Moreaux | Documentary | Co-production with France, with the testimony of 35 artists about the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner | |||
| 2014 | ||||||
| Latas Vacías | Hérib Godoy | Fátima Aquino, Sergio Cardozo, Blas Filártiga | Mystery | First feature film of the city of Coronel Oviedo | ||
| Luna de cigarras | Jorge Diaz de Bedoya | Lali Gonzalez, Nathan Christopher Haase, Andrea Quattrocchi | Drama | Screened at the Madrid International Film Festival | ||
| El tiempo nublado | Arami Ullon | Mirna Villalba, Arami Ullón, Luis Ullón | Documentary, Drama, Family | Paraguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards | ||
| Poder e impotencia, un drama en 3 actos | Anna Recalde Miranda | Documentary | Co-production with Francia and Italia, about the government and the dismissal of President Fernando Lugo | |||
| 2015 | ||||||
| Boquerón | Tonchy Antezana | History | Production of Bolivia on one of the main battles of the Chaco War | |||
| Sin Salida/No Way Out | Héctor Echavarría | Action | ||||
| Landfill Harmonic | Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley, Juliana Penaranda-Loftus | Ada Ríos, María de Jesús Ríos, Tania Vera, Noelia Ríos, Nicolás Gómez | Documentary | Screened at many film festivals, including Vancouver, SXSW, Maui, Long Beach, Leeds and Cleveland | ||
| Chicas nuevas 24 horas | Mabel Lozano | Documentary | Co-production of Paraguay, Spain, Argentina, Colombia and Peru, nominated for the Goya and Platinum awards | |||
| Mangoré, por amor al arte | Luis R. Vera | Damián Alcázar, Rafael Alfaro, Clotilde Cabral, Manuel Cuenca | Biography | The most expensive Paraguayan film, with 1,500,000 dollars | ||
| La Chiperita | Hugo Cataldo | Rafael Alfaro, Bruno Sosa Bofinger, Hebe Duarte, Patty Paredes | Romance, comedy | |||
| Felices los que lloran | Marcelo Torcida | Harry Stanley, Carlos Cabra, Carlos Echevarría | Drama | Won two prizes of "Oscar for religious cinema", at the Vatican film festival | ||
| Ore ru | Armando Aquino | Documentary, Religious | About the first visit of Pope Francis | |||
| Rúa | Daniela Candia | Documentary | Portrays the festivities of San Pedro and San Pablo, in the city of Altos | |||
| 2016 | ||||||
| Guaraní | Luis Zorraquin | Hebe Duarte, Emilio Barreto, Jazmin Bogarin | Drama | Co-production with Argentina | ||
| Gritos del Monday | Hector XIIX Rodriguez | Clotilde Cabral, Solange Mendez Flores, Ana Ivanova | Horror | First Paraguayan horror feature film. | ||
| El secuestro | Hugo Javier Cardozo | Drama, Action | First production of the city of Encarnación. | |||
| La última tierra | Pablo Lamar | Ramón del Río, Vera Valdez | Drama | Coproducción with Holanda, Chile and Qatar | ||
| Un suelo lejano | Gabriel Muro | Documentary | Argentine production about Nueva Germania, the truncated German colony of the sister of Friedrich Nietzsche | |||
| Hoy partido a las tres | Clarisa Navas | Comedy, Sport | Production of Corrientes, Argentina, with minority Paraguayan participation | |||
| Paraguay, droga y banana | Juan Manuel Salinas | Documentary | The history of drug trafficking in Paraguay and the figure of General Andrés Rodríguez | |||
| 2017 | ||||||
| Truenos | Mario Goia | Robert Grange, Juanse Buzó, Rubén Zapattini, Ariel Margatti, Ricardo Quintana | Action, Comedy | |||
| Santificar lo profano | Agustín Núñez | Hector Lozzca, Lety Mancuello | Drama | |||
| Saber Crecer | Pedro Noah Espínola, Walter Hermosa Jr. | Gonzalo Martinez, Constanza Coscia, Pedro Noah Espínola | Drama, Young | The entire team was under 21 years of age | ||
| Los Buscadores | Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori | Tomás Arredondo, María Cecilia Torres, Mario Toñánez, Christian Ferreira | Adventure, Comedy | Paraguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards | ||
| 2018 | ||||||
| La Redención | Hérib Godoy | Juan Carlos Notari, Lali González, Emilio Barreto, Ramón del Río, José Barrios, Sergio Cardozo, Mauro Acosta, Blas Filartiga, Aníbal Ortiz | Drama, History, Road Movie | |||
| The Heiresses | Marcelo Martinessi | Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova, Nilda Gonzalez, María Martins, Alicia Guerra | Drama | Won two Silver Berlin Bears (Best Actress and Alfred Bauer Prize) at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival. Paraguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards | ||
| Leal, solo hay una forma de vivir | Rodrigo Salomón, Pietro Scappini | Luis Aguirre, Fini Bocchino, Bruno Sosa, Fabio Chamorro, Dani Da Rosa, José Fretes, Andrea Frigerio, David Gerber, Ana Maria Imizcoz, Mauricio A. Jortack, Felix Medina, Alcides Oviedo Cáceres, Andrea Quattrocchi, Sergio Quiñonez, Silvio Rodas | Action, Crime, Drama | First Paraguayan film to be available on Netflix. | ||
| 2019 | ||||||
| Orsai | Emiliano Gómez | Rafael Alfaro, Paola Maltese, Héctor Silva, Martín Oviedo, Tomás Arredondo, Ximena Ayala, Renato Gómez, Lucrecia Carrillo | Comedy, Family, Romance | |||
| Morgue | Hugo Cardozo | Francisco Ayala, María del Mar Fernández, Abel Martínez, Pablo Martínez, Raúl Rotela, Willi Villalba, Aldo Von Knobloch | Horror, Thriller | |||
| Cadete Amarilla, mi hijo | Patricia Aguayo Royg | Documentary | Paraguayan entry for the Best Iberoamerican Film at the 34th Goya Awards; and for the same category at the 62nd Ariel Awards. | |||
| El Supremo Manuscrito | Jorge Diaz de Bedoya, Michael Kovich Jr. | Sary López, Nathan Christopher Haase, Fernando Abadie, Rafael Alfaro, Ricardo Dalmacci, Javier Enciso, Sandra Guillén, Andrea Quattrocchi | Drama, Thriller | |||
2020s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||||||
| Matar a un muerto | Hugo Giménez | Ever Enciso, Aníbal Ortiz, Silvio Rodas, Jorge Román | Thriller | |||
| Lima 3.31 | Marcelo Torcida, Doc Benson | Drama | In Post-production. First Paraguayan English language feature film. | |||
| The List | Michael J. Hardy | Thriller | ||||
| 2021 | ||||||
| 2022 | ||||||
| Eami | Paz Encina | Anel Picanerai, Curia Chiquejno Etacoro, Ducubaide Chiquenoi, Basui Picanerai Etacore, Lucas Etacori, Guesa Picanerai, Lazaro Dosapei Cutamijo | Drama | |||
| Guapo'y | Sofía Paoli Thorne | Celsa Ramírez | Documentary | Winner - Best First Feature - Special Mention at the 35th International Documentary Film Amsterdam[5] Winner - Documentary Competition - Best Director at the 26th Málaga Film Festival[6] Winner - Human Rights Film Competition - Best Film & Audience Award at the 41st International Film Festival of Uruguay[7][8] Nominated - Best Documentary at the 27th Lima Film Festival[9] | ||
| 2023 | ||||||
| The Apartment | Michael Kovich Jr. | Bruno Sosa, Andrea Quattrocchi, Fernando Abadie, Roberto Cardozo, Clotilde Cabral | Horror | |||
| The Last Runway 2, Commando Yaguarete | Armando Aquino & Mauricio Rial | Andrea Quattrocchi, Lali González, Renato Gómez, Bruno Sosa Bofinger, Bruno Sosa, Félix Medina, Amambay Narváez, Germano Holanda, Ana Maria Imizcoz, Mauricio A. Jortack, Rafael Kohan, Fabio Chamorro, Victoria Fretes, David Gerber, Hugo Jesus González, Silvio Rodas, Calolo Rodriguez, Sergio Quiñonez Román, Antonella Zaldivar, Luis Zorrilla | Action | Sequel to the 2018 film The Last Runway[10] | ||
| La última obra | Héctor Duarte | Mauricio Martínez, Gina Benedetti, Sandra “Kúku” Flecha, Rodrigo Caballero, Jimmy Rojas, Borja García-Enríquez, Ever Enciso | Thriller | |||
List of Paraguayan short films
- Alma Paraguaya (1925)
- Asunción a Cuatro Tiempos (1997)
- Cachorros de León, la Batalla de Boqueron (1997)
- La Cajita Feliz (2004)
- Campaña Electoral Con la Presencia de Eligio Ayala (1927)
- Candida (2003)
- Cariñoso (1986)
- La Catástrofe de Encarnación (1926)
- Caños (1987)
- De Amor y de Guerra (1997)
- Desde el Tejado (1986)
- Desfile Militar (1926)
- El Que se Aburra Aquí es Porque No Sabe Distraerse (1926)
- Emboscada, campo de concentración (1997)
- En el Infierno del Chaco (1932)
- Estigarribia: Militar y Presidente (1998)
- Estudio Para Una Siesta Paraguaya (2004)
- La Fiesta (1988)
- Las Gaviotas no Hablan Inglés (1996)
- La Guerra del Chaco (1933)
- Horno Ardiente (2002)
- Independencia (1997)
- Manifestación Frente al Congreso (1928)
- Paraguay, Tierra de Promisión (1937)
- Proceso de Cambio (1988)
- El Pueblo (1971)
- Revista Militar en Campo Grande (1926)
- Rutina (1987)
- La Selva Debe Vivir: Los Ache del Ñacunday (1997)
- El Señor Ministro del Interior (1927)
- Sepelio de Eligio Ayala (1930)
- El Siglo Que Se Va (2000)
- Una y Media (2001)
- Vistas del Paraguay (1929)
- Los Yshyr de Karchavalut (1997)
References
- ^ "Codicia". Retrieved 30 March 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "El trueno entre las hojas". 2 October 1958. Retrieved 30 March 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "La sangre y la semilla". 12 November 1959. Retrieved 30 March 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "En la vía". Retrieved 30 March 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "La coproducción "Guapo'y", de Sofía Paoli Thorne, premiada en el Festival de Amsterdam". GPS Audiovisual (in Spanish). 2022-11-18. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
- ^ "La Nación / Documental paraguayo "Guapo'y" gana premio de dirección en Málaga". www.lanacion.com.py (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-19.
- ^ "PREMIOS DEL 41º FESTIVAL CINEMATOGRÁFICO INTERNACIONAL DEL URUGUAY | Revista FILM" (in Spanish). 2023-04-17. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
- ^ "El paso de Guapo'y por el 41° Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay #41FCIU culmina con dos hermosos premios 😍". Instagram. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
- ^ "¡ESTOS SON LOS GANADORES DEL 27 FESTIVAL DE CINE DE LIMA PUCP!". Retrieved 2023-08-19.
- ^ "HEi Films lanzó el teaser de "Leal 2: Comando Yaguareté″". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-16.