El Baldío

Paraguay, 1958. The charismatic Narciso returns from Buenos Aires with rock ’n’ roll in his veins. Under the suffocating military regime, his radio show becomes a music sensation and a symbol of freedom.

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 a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection.

Miriam is thirteen years of age. Today could be her last day at school. This film follows her day - with all its ups and downs - and describes her efforts to find acceptance.

The vast Gran Chaco natural region in Paraguay is under serious threat from large-scale deforestation and wildfires. Filmmaker Sebastian Peña Escobar travels with the German entomologist Ulf Drechsel and the Paraguayan ornithologist Jota Escobar to this vulnerable, flammable area, which looks like an apocalyptic landscape with red dirt roads and dry thorny trees.

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

From the origin of the Guarani nation to contemporary Paraguay: historians, anthropologists, writers and artists try to unravel the knots of a reality full of contrasts.

Many Paraguayan women migrate from their villages to the city to earn money to support their families. As domestic workers, they become part of a system of exploitation accepted by society and legitimized by Paraguayan law. This is the story of one of them and everything she leaves behind when she goes.

A series of talks with leading figures in the country's cultural life, where the Jesuit priest, writer, researcher and linguist Bartomeu Meliá recounts his arrival in Paraguay in 1954 and his long history of life, exile and intellectual production always linked to his adopted homeland, Paraguay.

An approach to the land problem in Paraguay from the War of the Triple Alliance to the present day.