Late in Eami, the most recent film from Paraguayan director Paz Encina, the camera rests on the image of a pair of white hands sewing lace into a piece of cloth as a voice whispers off screen: “They... Read Article
Films from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Paraguay will be screened as part of the 27th ¡VIVA! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival, which returns to Manchester’s HOME cinema this 6-22 August. Ten Latin American... Read Article
Beginning in Asunción, Paraguay, Remezcla Tu Ciudad is a series of residencies for sound artists, focused on recollecting and reutilising field recordings from the cities of residence. With the aim of continuing to depict the musical landscape of... Read Article
King Kong en Asunción opens with us in the backseat of a 4×4, as the protagonist (deftly played by Andrade Júnior, who sadly passed away before the film was released) drives into the salt flats of Bolivia to... Read Article
The music of Paraguay is the stuff of legends. Though obscure, Paraguay has yielded amazing acts that have made an impact around the world. Its musical culture has a long tradition; it is a highly complex blend of... Read Article
Encompassing swathes of Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, the Gran Chaco is South America’s second-largest wilderness after the Amazon rainforest. But in stark contrast to its tropical neighbour, the Chaco is a dry, sun-charred no-man’s land of thorn forest... Read Article
On Thursday 18th July, London’s Rich Mix will be the venue for a documentary and talk looking at Paraguay’s Chaco, a vast and distinctive semi-arid area of land that has become notorious, due to it’s geographic location, for... Read Article
The Paraguay Reader, edited by Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson and published by the Duke University Press, is an attempt to raise the stock of a country which historically was described variously as: “the Tibet of South America”,... Read Article
Left-right divides in Latin American politics run as deep and are as sore as an open wound, gashed by the continuous crossing of bullets and beliefs. The clash is historical but remains painfully pertinent in a continent’s search... Read Article
How do we meet the ever increasing demand for food, without harming small farmers and relying on genetically modified monocultures? That is the premise of director Bettina Borgfeld’s 2011 documentary Raising Resistance screened last week as part of... Read Article
2011 was the year of Paraguay’s bicentenary, but with so much news exploding all over the globe, it was not going to be very likely that anyone in Britain would have heard the fireworks. Still, not only did... Read Article
Every once in a while, a film appears which seems to come out of nowhere, but which touches everyone who sees it. The way it happens is that usually the film festival circuit see it first: programmers, critics... Read Article
