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Memory Exercises

Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

Synopsis

Between 1954 and 1989, Paraguay suffered one of the longest dictatorships in Latin America: 35 years of repression, silence, torture, exile, fear and disappearing. To remember that era would be a determining factor for the future of the country. It would mean an end to the system of corruption. Memory is the only thing that might save the Paraguayan people. ‘Memory Exercises’ is a documentary film about the story of people who need to remember specific moments – to recollect everything. It is also the story of a childhood in exile and the always-present question of returning to one’s homeland.

Credits

Director

Paz Encina

Screenwriter

Paz Encina

Producer

Constanza Sanz Palacios

About the Director

Paz Encina was born in 1971 in Asunción, Paraguay. She obtained a Masters degree in Cinematography in 2001 from the Universidad del Cine (FUC). Her first film, ‘Hamaca Paraguaya’, won several awards, including the FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 (Un Certain Regard Competition), the Luis Buñuel award and the Ficco prize, both for best Latin American film. The film had its commercial premiere in several countries, and was sold to Arte France and Encuentro in Argentina. In 2010 she made the short films ‘Rio Paraguay (Three Movements)’ and ‘Viento Sur’, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2012. ‘Memory Exercises’ is her second feature film.

Awards and Festival History

Festivals

San Sebastian Film Festival 2017, Zabaltegui-Tabakalera section (WP)
Cartagena Film Festival 2017
Cinema du Réel 2017
International Cinema Festival of Munich 2017

Theatrical release in Argentina (end of March 2017)

Awards

Best Director and Best Documentary, FICCI Cartagena 2017

Contacts

• Main Contact

  Constanza Sanz Palacios

  Company: 

  CONSTANZA SANZ PALACIOS FILMS

  Phone: 

  +541149640847

  Email: 

  info@constanzasanzpalacios.com

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