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ESPERANZA

By Sylvie MOREAUX, Enrique CARBALLIDO

Documentary - Completed 2011

It feels like fiction. Thirty-seven Paraguayan artists whose 35-year struggle against the Stroessner regime brought them to the use of a powerful weapon – art. They are what gave people a chance to dream at a time when thinking was not allowed.

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Festival de Cannes 2012

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- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE, PARAGUAY
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Sylvie MOREAUX, Enrique CARBALLIDO
- Writer(s)
- Sylvie MOREAUX, Enrique CARBALLIDO
- Producer(s)
- Enrique CARBALLIDO (L'Embardée), Gabriela SABATÉ (Sabatéfilm)
- Synopsis
- It feels like fiction. Thirty-seven Paraguayan artists whose 35-year struggle against the Stroessner regime brought them to the use of a powerful weapon – art.
  Isolated within a forgotten country in the heart of Latin America, their voices blend as they tell stories, poems written between days of torture, songs for which they were taken prisoner, dances and paintings that the military regime could not understand, sculpture, and theater performed even as far as concentration camps. They are what gave people a chance to dream, to imagine a better life at a time when thinking was not allowed.
  This is no historical analysis, far from it. It’s a human story, written in the sensitive artistic language that dictatorial regimes never master.
- Partners & financing
- Secretaria nacional de cultura del Paraguay
  FONDEC
  Ambassade de France au Paraguay
  Le Fresnoy
  Le CRRAV
- Beginning of shooting
- Nov 01, 2006

ESPERANZA

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