title: Costa Dulce

type: Poster

status: Released

overview: The young David divides his time between his home and his temporary job to fix and paint the house of someone who has gone abroad. After the arrival of a mysterious device for the homeowner, a restless and irrepressible curiosity takes possession of David. The myth awakens and David will get involved in a tale of greed, obsession, and death, ultimately threatening the most precious: the freedom.

title: Costa Dulce

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Writer

department: Writing

original_title: Costa Dulce

original_language: gn

production_countries: NL PY


title: The Hyperwomen

type: Backdrop

overview: In the Kuikuro homeland of the Upper Xingu in central Brazil, the community is called upon to make preparations for the Jamurikumalu ritual: a traditional festival of singing and dancing that is performed only by women. However, complications arise when an elderly woman is seriously ill. With refreshing frankness and exuberance, this extraordinary documentary follows the Kuikuro people in a race against time to preserve the knowledge of their elders and the practice of their traditions before they are lost forever.

title: The Hyperwomen

title: Itão Kuegü: As Hiper Mulheres

overview: Temendo a morte da esposa idosa, um velho pede que seu sobrinho realize o Jamurikumalu, o maior ritual feminino do Alto Xingu (MT), para que ela possa cantar uma última vez. As mulheres do grupo começam os ensaios, enquanto a única cantora que de fato sabe todas as músicas se encontra gravemente doente.

title: Itão Kuegü: As Hiper Mulheres

overview: Nas profundezas da selva do Mato Grosso, no Alto Xingu, este documentário acompanha os preparativos para um ritual Jamurikumalu: um festival de canto e dança que só é realizado por mulheres. O problema é que a única mulher que conhece todas as músicas está gravemente doente.

title: Les Hyperfemmes

job: Executive Producer

department: Production

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

job: Sound

department: Sound

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Screenplay

job: Producer

original_title: Itão Kuegü: As Hiper Mulheres


title: The Village

overview: An experimental film, a register of the peculiarities of life in rural Paraguay.

title: El pueblo

overview: Paraguay, 1968. Síntesis visual de la idiosincrasia paraguaya. Filmada en las ciudades de Tobatí, Villeta y otros puntos del interior de Paraguay  (Fuente: http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/artes-espectaculos/el-pueblo-de-carlos-saguier-marco-brillante-cierre-de-tesape-577414.html)

title: The Village

job: Assistant Director

job: Assistant Camera

job: Prop Designer

department: Art

original_title: El pueblo


title: Man of the North

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

title: Man of the North

character: Old Woman

type: Cast

character: Gaucho

job: Story

job: Music

job: Production Design

job: Foley

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Karai norte

title: Man of the North

country: PY


title: Cuarahy Ohecha

overview: A day in the life of a Franciscan peasant family in Paraguay in 1968, depicting the Cabral family's gestures, attitudes, small daily events, affective relationships, and dignity.

title: Cuarahy Ohecha

original_title: Le Soleil l’a vu


title: Manojhara

overview: MANOJHARA portrays – in their own words – the experiences of the residents of Paraguay’s Santa Isabel leper colony. They narrate images of life in the colony with statements about moving from the periphery of the colony, where the healthier patients stay, to the center, where the dying patients are, as well as anticipation of a celebration and not wanting to feel ill and outcast.

title: Manojhara

title: Manojhara ou la léproserie Sainte-Isabelle

production_countries: FR PY


title: In Search of the Land Without Evil

overview: In the ‘land without evil’ humans will find peace, according to the Guaraní. Not far from Rio de Janeiro, they have built a village where they can live according to their customs and their children can grow up equally influenced by ancient traditions and the modern world. The uncommented observation of their everyday lives full of games, laughter and music enables the audience to pose questions – and to search for their own right answers.

title: In Search of the Land Without Evil

title: Em busca da terra sem males

job: Assistant Editor

original_title: Em busca da terra sem males


title: Ysyry

overview: 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.

title: Ysyry

job: Director

original_title: Ysyry


title: Guairaka'i Ja - o Dono da Lontra

overview: Guarani-Mbya people believe that every being in this world, even animals that are hunted, have a spirit/owner watching over them. Some of this 'owners' can get really vindictive if they feel disrespected in any way...

title: Guairaka'i Ja - o Dono da Lontra

job: Writer

original_title: Guairaka'i Ja - o Dono da Lontra


title: Ojepota rai va’e regua - Sobre aquele que quase se transformou

overview: A newlywed young man, when going to the woods to check his animal traps, is constantly harassed by his younger sister-in-law. But after going back to the village, he finds out she never left the place. Short film made during audiovisual workshops in the Guarani village Tenonde Porã.


title: The Devil's Tuning

name: Tráiler La Afinación del Diablo | DOCTV Latinoamérica VI

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

title: La Afinación del Diablo

overview: O violonista paraguaio Efrén Kamba’i Echeverría faleceu em 19 de junho de 2018. Seu estilo musical pessoal, caracterizado por uma afinação única e uma técnica de interpretação especial, é o tema deste filme. Quando toca, ouvimos o que parece ser o som de dois violões. Qual é seu segredo? Vai levá-lo para o túmulo ou o transmitirá para a geração seguinte? Há rumores de que aprendeu seu estilo único de Peloncho, uma figura sinistra da qual todos ouviram falar, mas que ninguém conheceu. Dizem que Peloncho vendeu sua alma ao diabo.

title: The Devil's Tuning

original_title: La Afinación del Diablo


title: Ultima Street

overview: 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.

title: Ultima Street

title: Calle última

overview: Korte film: Miriam is dertien jaar oud. Vandaag zou wel eens haar laatste schooldag kunnen zijn. Deze film volgt haar dag – met alle hoogte- en dieptepunten – en beschrijft haar pogingen om acceptatie te vinden.

original_title: Calle última


title: Urihi Haromatipë: Curadores da Terra-Floresta

overview: The thunder is warning, "The earth is sick." To cure it, David Kopenawa gathered in Roraima the Yanomami shamans from various regions. With the help of the spirit food, the hallucinogenic yãkoana powder, they will treat the ills caused by cities and white diseases.

overview: Os trovões estão avisando: "a Terra está doente". Para curá-la Davi Kopenawa reuniu os xamãs Yanomami de diversas regiões. Com a ajuda do alimento dos espíritos, o rapé yakoana, eles vão tratar os males provocados pelas cidades e doenças dos brancos.


title: Two villages, one single walk

name: Mokoi Tekoa Petei Jeguata - Duas aldeias uma caminhada - trailer

site: Vimeo

overview: With no Forest left to hunt and no land to cultivate, the Maby-Guarani depend on the sale of their handcraft to survive. Three young Guarani filmmakers accompany the daily life of two comunities united by the same history, since the first contact with the Europeans until the intense coexistence with today’s White people.

title: Two villages, one single walk

title: Mokoi Tekoá Petei Jeguatá – Duas aldeias, uma caminhada

title: Two villages, one single walk

country: US


title: Braian Magdaleno - La Película

title: Braian Magdaleno - La Película

character: Braian Magdaleno

original_title: Braian Magdaleno - La Película


title: Kaapora, o chamado das matas

overview: A narrative of the connection of Indigenous Peoples with the Earth and its Spirituality, from the point of view of the indigenous Olinda, who develops a project for environmental recovery in the lands of her people.  With the indigenous worldview as a lens, Kaapora and other spiritual characters are the center line of the film's narrative and argument.

title: Kaapora, o chamado das matas

title: Kaapora, o chamado das matas

overview: Uma narrativa da ligação dos Povos Indígenas com a Terra e sua Espiritualidade, do ponto de vista da indígena Olinda, tendo como lente a cosmovisão indígena.

original_title: Kaapora, o chamado das matas


title: A História da Cutia e do Macaco

overview: While the agouti's husband looks for food, she meets the monkey. Based  on a narrative of the Kawaiweté people, this is the  first cinematic experience of women between 18 and  70-years-old from the Xingu Indigenous Land.

title: A História da Cutia e do Macaco

title: A História da Cutia e do Macaco

overview: Enquanto o marido da cutia busca comida, a cutia se encontra com o macaco. Baseada em uma narrativa do povo Kawaiweté, esta é a primeira experiência cinematográfica de mulheres entre 18 a 70 anos da Terra Indígena do Xingu.

original_title: A História da Cutia e do Macaco


title: Princesses

overview: They live in the shadow of what is rigthfully theirs.

title: Princesses

original_title: Princesas

production_countries: AR PY


title: Boreal

overview: Young Benjamin is having trouble adjusting to barbed wirework. Waiting for days to the Mennonite chief but the wait is very long. The other workers, César and Genaro, begin to feel that the Paraguayan Chaco is getting strange and tiring.

title: Boreal

title: Boreal

overview: A Benjamín le cuesta adaptarse a su trabajo y comienza a comportarse de forma errática, espera con ansiedad el regreso del líder menonita, pero la espera es larga. Cuando finalmente aparece, dice que deben quedarse más tiempo para seguir colocando el alambrado, pero Benjamín se opone.

character: Genaro

character: Benjamin

character: César

original_title: Boreal

production_countries: MX PY


title: Y (water in Guarani)

overview: Basilio has become accustomed to the lack of water, to the abuse of authority, to the suffering and loneliness that corruption generates. He is trapped, like many others to the system that reigns where he lives.

title: Y (water in Guarani)

character: Basilio

character: Boss

character: Workmate

original_title: Y (agua en Guaraní)


title: Jejou

overview: Jejou is a magical and visually powerful story that alternates and unites the popular traditions of the Guarani Mbyá, native inhabitants of the Misiones jungle, and the Poles, who from the end of the 19th century came to Misiones (Argentina) in search of a better life. future. It is a story of encounter, love, union, friendship, collaboration, learning, respect.

title: Jejou

original_title: Jejou


title: Arte Mbyá-Guarani e suas Histórias

title: Arte Mbyá-Guarani e suas Histórias

overview: O documentário mostra e divulga a arte e as histórias dos Mbyá-Guaranis da comunidade Tekoá Koenju, manifestadas por meio do artesanato. Aborda o processo de fabricação, desde o buscar a matéria-prima na mata, moldar e preparar as peças, até o momento de se deslocarem para as Ruínas de São Miguel – a 30 km da comunidade – onde vendem os objetos.

original_title: Arte Mbyá-Guarani e suas Histórias

title: Mbyá Rembiapó Nhemombe'u

country: BR


title: Politica e Tradição - Carta Kuikuro

title: Politica e Tradição - Carta Kuikuro

overview: O Coletivo Kuikuro de Cinema evidencia a luta das lideranças de seu povo para perpetuar a cultura e tradição à juventude que se distancia de seus costumes.

original_title: Politica e Tradição - Carta Kuikuro


title: Ava Marangatu

title: Ava Marangatu

overview: No Guaiviry, terra tradicional Guarani e Kaiowá, dois jovens saem para caçar no resto de mata que ainda permanece.

title: Ava Marangatu

original_title: Ava Marangatu


title: Wehsé Darase – Trabalho da Roça

title: Wehsé Darase – Trabalho da Roça

overview: O filme mostra o universo do sistema agrícola tradicional no Rio Negro, hoje patrimônio imaterial brasileiro, sob os olhos de uma jovem Tukano, Larissa, que se constrói a partir de suas reflexões sobre a relação com os antepassados, como a tia-avó.

title: Wehsé Darase – Trabalho da Roça

original_title: Wehsé Darase – Trabalho da Roça


title: Vamos À Luta

title: Vamos À Luta

overview: Em abril 2002, os índios Makuxis da reserva Raposa Serra do Sol comemoram 25 anos de luta pelo reconhecimento definitivo da reserva. Divino Tserewahú, realizador Xavante, vai ao encontro dos seus “parentes” e registra as comemorações e a demonstração de força do exército de fronteira para intimidar os índios. Divino manifesta a sua surpresa diante de tal confrontação.

original_title: Vamos À Luta


title: Um Tempo Para Mim

overview: Florencia menstruates for the first time on the same day as a lunar eclipse. She is raised by her grandmother and follows the routine and customs of her Mbya Guarani tradition. Withdrawn from social life, Florencia is experiencing a transformation.

title: Um Tempo Para Mim

overview: Florência fica menstruada pela primeira vez no mesmo dia em que ocorre um eclipse da Lua. Ela é criada pela avó e segue a rotina e os costumes de sua tradição mbya guarani. Recolhida do convívio social, Florência vive uma transformação.

title: Um Tempo Para Mim

original_title: Um Tempo Para Mim


title: Mby'Á Nhendu - O Som do Espírito Guarani

overview: Documentário sobre o universo musical Mbyá Guarani, etnia do Sul do Brasil. O filme explora as sonoridades e reflexões sobre religiosidade, política e meio ambiente que estão presentes nas músicas dos Mbyá.


title: Mborairapé

TEASER mborairapé

type: Teaser

overview: RAP is a music path. Jaraguá is Guarani.

title: Mborairapé

character: Self

job: Executive Producer

original_title: Mborairapé


title: Kuri Ha Akae Ovy – The Araucaria and Azure Jay

name: Trailer Kuri Ha Akae Ovy - A Araucária e a Gralha Azul | Filmambiente 2022

overview: An ancient story about young couple from different tribes. Araucaria and Azure Jay is a South American legend behalf cooperation between species and environmental balance.

original_title: Kuri Ha Akae Ovy – A Araucária e a Gralha Azul


title: Luminous Shores

title: Hacer orillas luminosas

overview: Imágenes térmicas capturadas por la realizadora exponen los desplazamientos nocturnos llevados a cabo por mujeres paseras en la frontera argentino-paraguaya. Un testimonio subversivo que expresa visualmente las condiciones en que se realiza dicha actividad.

title: Luminous Shores

title: Hacer orillas luminosas

overview: Thermische beelden gemaakt door de filmmaker leggen de nachtelijke bewegingen bloot die vrouwelijke voorbijgangers aan de Argentijns-Paraguayaanse grens uitvoeren. Een subversieve getuigenis die op visuele wijze uitdrukking geeft aan de omstandigheden waarin genoemde activiteit wordt uitgevoerd.

original_title: Hacer orillas luminosas


title: The Last Ones

overview: 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.

title: The Last Ones

title: Los últimos

overview: Ulf, alemán de lengua ácida, es un reconocido especialista en mariposas nocturnas. Jota, paraguayo perspicaz, es considerado el mayor experto en aves del país. Llevan décadas estudiando los bosques de Paraguay, siendo testigos de la implacable deforestación y de los incendios provocados por el hombre. Sebastián es un cineasta fascinado con el Chaco, un ecosistema de bosques secos en peligro de extinción, considerado la mayor masa verde de Sudamérica después del Amazonas.

title: Los últimos

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Los últimos

title: The Last Ones

production_countries: FR PY UY


title: People from the Heart of the Earth

overview: The collective Guahu’i Guyra spent three years filming their people, the Guarani-Kaiowá, original inhabitants of a piece of land in Brazil. Much of of their ancestral lands have been destroyed by monoculture and deforestation. In the small territory they managed to retake, a few families try to live according to their traditional way of life, devoting a lot of attention to each other and their environment.

title: People from the Heart of the Earth

title: Ava Yvy Pyte ygua

overview: Um canto sagrado que protege a terra com os raios que contam sua própria história do começo da terra, uma história contada pelas pessoas que nasceram no coração da terra.

original_title: Ava Yvy Pyte ygua

title: Ava Yvy Pyte ygua - Povo do Coração da Terra


title: Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

name: Xondaros, Guarani resistance (2023) - Official Trailer

overview: The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the proximity to the city, which brings lack of resources, pollution of rivers and springs, racism, police violence, fires, lack of infrastructure and sanitation, among others. Unable to live like their ancestors, their millenary culture is lost as it merges with the urban culture.

title: Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

job: Camera Operator

job: Graphic Designer

job: Translator

department: Crew

job: Color Grading

job: VFX Artist

department: Visual Effects

job: Drone Operator

job: Associate Producer


title: Kuarahy Rendy Kyry Ipegwa

title: Reza à Tênue Luz do Sol

overview: Duas mulheres guarani-kaiowá rezam à luz do sol e pedem por sua proteção

original_title: Kuarahy Rendy Kyry Ipegwa


title: Birthday

overview: Mercedes is an exhausted woman who faces the non-return of her only son, after the end of the Chaco War in 1935. A soldier returns to the same town looking for his girlfriend, and ends up accompanying this woman, discovering in turn the reason for her suffering.

title: Cumpleaños

overview: Mercedes es una agotada mujer que se enfrenta al no retorno de su único hijo, tras la finalización de la Guerra del Chaco en 1935. Un soldado retorna al mismo pueblo buscando a su novia, y termina acompañando a esta mujer, descubriendo a su vez el porqué de su sufrir.

title: Birthday

character: Mercedes González

character: Miguel Greco

character: Justo González

job: Production Coordinator

job: Assistant Director

job: Editor

job: Author

original_title: Aramboty


title: Siesta

overview: This is about the myth of the Jasy Jatere, part of the Guarani culture in Paraguay.

title: Siesta

overview: Una abuela cuenta a su nieto una leyenda guaraní.

title: Siesta

character: Jaryi (voice)

character: Eladio (voice)

job: Screenplay

job: Music

job: Production Assistant

job: Animation

original_title: Siesta


title: Pirakutu Ha’arõ

title: En veda

overview: Época de veda en San Antonio, Paraguay y vemos rastros de presencia humana a orillas del río Paraguay.

job: Director

job: Sound Editor

job: Sound Recordist

job: Production Executive

original_title: Pirakutu Ha’arõ


title: The Way of Being

overview: A social and cultural testimony of Paraguayan peasant life (in the indigenous language of Paraguay: the Guarani), its subsistence problems, the emigration of family members, their struggles for the recognition of their rights, their relationship with nature and their hopes. This testimony corresponds to the shared experience with the Ramos Gómez family, resident of Cordillerita Costa, Ybycuí, Department of Paraguarí, 120 kms. of the capital Asunción, on April 20, 2008, national election day.

title: The Way of Being

original_title: Tekoeté: Manera auténtica de ser


title: Voices of dignity

key: vyzcSVyKGic

name: ENCUENTRO VOCES DE DIGNIDAD - GRUPO SUNU / GIZ (trailer) (2013)

overview: The research project "Voices and Perceptions of Indigenous Women on Gender-Based Violence" allows us to approach a reality that transcends borders and socio-cultural differences: violence against women. Indigenous women, from their own worldviews, conceptualize violence, their experiences, and their needs in the pursuit of a good life. This documentary aims to give visibility to this problem and to value the role of Indigenous women within their communities, organizations, and villages as actors in building a life free from violence.

title: Voices of dignity

original_title: Voces de dignidad


title: Ogwa: Memoria de un pueblo

overview: It tells the story of a Paraguayan man named Ogwa, a spiritual leader of an indigenous community who uses pictorial art as a means of disseminating his culture and indigenous traditions to transmit them to his people and people outside his environment.

title: Ogwa: Memoria de un pueblo

original_title: Ogwa: Memoria de un pueblo


title: Teko Guarani

overview: About the preservation of indigenous identity and culture through the music of the Mbya Guaraní indigenous community of Tarumandy, Luque - Central.

title: Teko Guarani

original_title: Teko Guarani


title: Yankees go home!

overview: The campaign ¡Yanquis Tapeho! (in Guarani, "Yankees go away," echoing the classic phrase "Yankees go home!") is a campaign of repudiation against the presence of US military troops in Paraguay and Latin America, launched by the Anti-Imperialist Platform Paraguay. This material is the first short video of this campaign. It includes information about the presence of troops in Paraguay, as well as images of the actions carried out by students, organized youth, and other popular sectors during the direct action of repudiation in front of the National Parliament (September 15, 2005) and the massive march through the center of the capital demanding the immediate withdrawal of US military personnel from Paraguay and Latin America (September 17, 2005).

title: Yankees go home!

original_title: Yanquis Tapeho