Movies Similar to Pirakutu Ha’arõ

Paraguay, Droga y Banana(2016)

Documentary that explores the relationship between politics and drug trafficking in Paraguay

Ore Ru(2015)

In July 2015, after 27 years, Paraguay will receive the Pope. Ru Ore is a documentary about the waiting for this important event through four life stories: Gaby, 13, who lives in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Asuncion; Mafe, 16, who is fighting against cancer; the story of Margarita, 53, Indigenous "Aché" fighting for the survival of her traditions and culture; and the history of Tati, 18, a survivor of the Ycuá Bolaños tragedy.

Paraguay was news

August 1, 2004, Asunción, Paraguay. Sunday, noon, a fire in a supermarket that presumably breaks out in the food court, leaves a balance of 400 dead and 500 injured. Survivors and witnesses affirm that the doors were intentionally closed so that customers would not leave without paying. The film follows the trials of the main defendants. The testimonies of victims and of the main actors in the trial are intertwined with the testimonies of the accused, little by little the social drama that Paraguay is experiencing is becoming evident.

Flor Brilhante e as Cicatrizes da Pedra(2013)

Orgasm chronicles according to women

The documentary deals with the experiences around orgasm of Paraguayan women of different ages and provides the vision of a sexologist who comments on these experiences. In the conversation that is generated from this social dynamic, taboos, myths and common situations in relationships are discussed.

Corporate Accountability(2020)

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in voiceover that reveals the collusion of the same concerns in the military dictatorship’s terror.

Chokokue. Trabajo, Organización y Lucha(2008)

A journey into rural Paraguay, the struggle for land, for rights, to maintain cultural identity and traditional production methods in the face of the advance of the soybean agro-export model. Organization, persecution, imprisonment. The voice that is not heard, but cries out and expresses itself.

La Plata Yvyguy - Enterros e Guardados(2016)

The Legend of the Paraguay War Legend tells that during the Paraguay War (1864-1870), families that lived near the border and soldiers who were leaving for battle used to hide their valuable belongings by burying them in secret spots, in order to safely recover them after the war. In several cases, though, the only people who knew about the secret spots of those personal treasures died before they could go back to recover them. According to inhabitants of that region, the spirits of those tormented men would reveal the location of those "buried and hidden" treasures to chosen people in their dreams, visions or by haunting them. "The Legend of the Paraguay War" approaches local legends in a historic and literary way. Those legends were born from within the biggest conflict in South America, and were developed and influenced by the local imaginary view of the world and which can be considered a relevant part of those people's identity up to this day

Emilio Barreto: Angels and Demons(2024)

In Paraguay, during the regime of dictator Alfredo Stroessner, almost 400 people disappeared without a trace, and several hundred thousand were sent to prisons where they were tortured. One of these people was Emilio Barreto, an aspiring actor who spent a total of thirteen years in prison despite never being tried for any crime.

Eami(2022)

Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Totobiegosode Natural and Cultural Heritage". Before this, they had to live through the traumatic situation of leaving the territory behind and surviving a war. It is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the point of view of Asoja, a bird-god with the ability to bring an omniscient- temporal gaze, who becomes the narrator of this story developed in a crossing between documentary and fiction.

Tren Paraguay(2011)

The Paraguayan railroad, created in 1861, fell in the late twentieth century in decline. Operated for decades by foreign companies and later by the Paraguayan State has been in a growing abandonment since the late 90s. Since then there have been projects of recovery, but the stations are empty and the main terminal was demolished late last year.

From the shore(2025)

Contemplative piece that portrays the silent bond between a man and the river that watches over him. Set on the banks of the Paraguay River, in the city of Concepción, this poetic short film explores the stillness, memory, and emotional landscape of a place that speaks through water, wind, and waiting.

Misa Agogó(2025)

In 2019, Nicolás was archiving photographs for J.M. Blanch when he discovered a secluded, uncataloged image depicting an artifact that resembled a ticking time bomb. Intrigued by the photo, Nicolás recorded an interview with Blanch to learn the story behind the mysterious object.

Red Earth(2006)

The film chronicles the lives of four humble families from the interior of Paraguay and their communion with the land.

Óga(2024)

La Chiperita(2015)

Cerro Cora(1978)

A 1978 Paraguayan film set on the last days of the Paraguayan War.

Thorns of the soul(2002)

Victoria becomes an orphan because her father, Don Lucio, died. She does not have good communication with her mother, Raquel. She looks for, and finds a job as a store employee, and at the same time she finishes her high school. There are memories from the past that cause her to seek out and create her destiny. She is avoiding from her family, her friends and from her boyfriend Aurelio. These and other stories, and this character and others are going to mix, and configure a complex crucible from the actual Paraguayan reality.

Mangoré(2015)

The life and times of famed Paraguayan musician Agustín Pío Barrios, from the years of his youth to his international success.

Storm Over the Andes(1935)

A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.