HAMACA PARAGUAYA

Paz ENCINA
  • 2006
  • Un Certain Regard
  • First film

June 14, 1935. And yet, much later. It’s already autumn and it’s still hot – the heat never goes away. In a remote place in Paraguay, an elderly peasant couple Candida and Ramon are waiting for their son who left to fight the Chaco War. They are also waiting for the rain to come, it keeps announcing its arrival but it doesn’t come; and for the wind that never comes either; and for the heat to go away but it never does in spite of the season; and for the dog to stop barking but it will never stop; and all in all, they are waiting for better times to come. The instant of the eternal waiting is found between the “before” and the “after” of time. The couple faces these waiting moments with different attitudes: Ramon, a farmer, waits with optimism; Candida, a mother and a washerwoman, believ

Directed by : Paz ENCINA
Year of production: 2006
Country: France, Argentina, Paraguay
Duration: 78 minutes

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Contacts

Secondary Production

  • LITA STANTIC PRODUCCIONES Argentina

Secondary Production

  • WANDA VISION Spain

Secondary Production

  • SILENCIO CINE Paraguay

Secondary Production

  • FORTUNA FILMS Netherlands