Lima 3.31

The Boys from Brazil

October 1978 •English

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

The Last Runway 2, Commando Yaguareté

August 2023 •Spanish

Betty Jara reassembles the Yaguareté Commandos to exchange an imprisoned criminal for one of her own agents. A risky operation becomes even more so when she realizes they are not just fighting a drug ring but the highest spheres of power.

Paraguay, the Promised Land

January 1937 •Spanish

The first ever Paraguayan feature tells about the mass wave of European immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.

Kirirî (Silence)

September 2018 •Spanish

In the midst of the military dictatorship, a calm silence surrounds the peasant life of a grandmother and her granddaughter in the interior of Paraguay, until a sudden absence makes it unbearable.

Óga

February 2024 •Spanish

Mangoré

August 2015 •Spanish

The life and times of famed Paraguayan musician Agustín Pío Barrios, from the years of his youth to his international success.

The Napkin Universe

November 2010 •Spanish

"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 scribbled.

Guaraní

April 2016 •Spanish

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.

Felipe Canasto

May 2011 •Spanish

1875. After the War of the Triple Alliance, Paraguay is shed of its male population. In a town without clear borders, three women will find a reason for love, thanks to a mysterious basket that they will guard with their lives. Thus was born the legend of Felipe, a being that would brought upon vengeance and death to all that saw him.

Thorns of the soul

September 2002 •Spanish

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 family, her friends and from her boyfriend Aurelio. These and other stories, and this character and others are going to mix, and configure a complex crucible from the actual Paraguayan reality.

Salidera

July 2019 •Spanish

José Benítez, a young Paraguayan worker who lives in Buenos Aires marginalized by his surroundings, is the victim of a Salidera. Motivated by his desperation and the urge to reverse his current condition, Benítez will try to get his money back, discovering in such an attempt that the possibility of achieving it is not so far away.

Eami

June 2022 •Spanish

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 this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Totobiegosode Natural and Cultural Heritage". Before this, they had to live through the traumatic situation of leaving the territory behind and surviving a war. It is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the point of view of Asoja, a bird-god with the ability to bring an omniscient- temporal gaze, who becomes the narrator of this story developed in a crossing between documentary and fiction.

One and a half

October 2001 •Spanish

A typical weekend out of "the dogs." The protagonists are a trio of teenagers who do what all 17 or 18 year old boys do: they ask dad for the car and go to some burger shop. In the middle, the film paints the environment: family relationships, love relationships, friendships. Until a surprising ending that changes the realistic code for the fantastic code.

Marilina: Daring To Dream

July 2023 •Spanish

A brave country girl's colorful rise to fame as a cumbia singer in Paraguay.

La redención

May 2018 •Spanish

A Camera for 90 thousand guaranies

March 2013 •Spanish

Two young women have their new video camera stolen by a petty thief, but the brother of one of the women will seek revenge.

Minotaur

September 2008 •Spanish

The masks we wear end up using us. A different character to each of the people in his life, a stranger to himself, Jorge Torregrossa constantly faces the loss of his own identity. A mysterious voice on the phone warns him that an irrevocable event is approaching in his destiny, meanwhile Torregrossa runs through the labyrinth of his existence, looking for a way out before it is too late.

Ysyry

January 2013 •Guaraní

The story takes place in Luque, on the banks of the Yukyry stream, where Juanchi is going to take a dip after playing soccer on a hot summer afternoon. The child plays innocently in the stream when he suddenly shows respiratory failure after ingesting some water. It happens what is least expected, all the people dress in mourning for the tragic death of this child, thinking that he died drowned when in fact it was something else. The child's sister and the local doctor begin an investigation and that's when they'll wish they'd never started it by learning everything that's going on behind it.

The Politicians Mansion

July 2011 •Spanish

The Mansion takes place in Ferchu's residence, where, until 2013, he lives with his girlfriends. Many personalities from Paraguayan politics participate week after week, where typical problems of the country are unleashed, and they have to solve them.

The Pawn

May 2014 •Spanish

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 stay, what he doesn't know is that Rubén comes with intentions to steal, since he has information that the "German" has many hidden jewels, in turn, Rubén also doesn't know that the "German" will realize his true intention.