The Best Paraguayan Contemporary Directors — theculturetrip.com

It has taken a while for cinema to find its true voice in Paraguay. This lengthy struggle is mainly because of Alfredo Stroessner, whose dictatorship between 1954-1989 acted as a creative stranglehold, stifling and suppressing Paraguayan cinematic culture. Films during this period were made solely to venerate a brutal dictatorship; therefore, cinema did not exist as an independent artistic and creative movement. Yet even when Paraguay became a democracy in the 1990s, filmmaking was still slow to materialise as a serious artform in the country. However, although funding is still a major issue, there is now an identifiable living and breathing film culture that is being fostered by many passionate and talented directors, all of whom are making an impact internationally.

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